Nick,
thank you for figuring this out.
Will upgrade as suggested.

Again thank you both for the great application.

Andrew

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>wrote:

> Fix, thanks, in particular to Nick for sorting this out.
>
> Andrew, I strongly suggest you upgrade to Emacs 22.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 3:12 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
>  [I mangled the previous response, so let me try again.]
>>
>> andrew dasys <adasys@objectivity.ca> wrote:
>>
>>  Nick,
>>> thank you for looking at this.
>>>
>>> I am running Emacs 21.4.1 Nothing bleeding edge here.
>>>
>>> The help for split-string looks reasonable  (compiled Lisp comes from
>>> "subr" ....) (complete output attached)
>>>
>>>  ....
>>
>>>
>>> split-string is a compiled Lisp function in `subr'.
>>> (split-string STRING &optional SEPARATORS)
>>>
>>> Splits STRING into substrings where there are matches for SEPARATORS.
>>> Each match for SEPARATORS is a splitting point.
>>> The substrings between the splitting points are made into a list
>>> which is returned.
>>> If SEPARATORS is absent, it defaults to "[ \f\t\n\r\v]+".
>>>
>>> If there is match for SEPARATORS at the beginning of STRING, we do not
>>> include a null substring for that.  Likewise, if there is a match
>>> at the end of STRING, we don't include a null substring for that.
>>>
>>> Modifies the match data; use `save-match-data' if necessary.
>>>
>>
>> I think that explains it: split-string takes one mandatory and two
>> optional arguments (separator regexp and an omit-nulls boolean) in
>> emacs-22/23; but only *one* optional argument in emacs-21 (the separator
>> arg). The org latex-exporting code calls it with two optional arguments
>> and that makes the emacs-21 implementation of split-string blow up.
>>
>> I just did an experiment: in my emacs-23, I called split-string
>> with one mandatory and *three* more arguments:
>>
>> (split-string "foo
>> bar
>> baz" "\n" t t)
>>
>> and I got output which looks very similar to what you are getting.
>>
>> So I think it's an incompatibility with emacs-21. Try the following
>> patch for now and let us know whether it resolves your problem:
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/org-export-latex.el b/lisp/org-export-latex.el
>> index 0c0c87f..e8ef6d5 100644
>> --- a/lisp/org-export-latex.el
>> +++ b/lisp/org-export-latex.el
>> @@ -1111,7 +1111,10 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE
>> and STRING-AFTER."
>>                           (string-match "\\<align=\\([^ \t\n\r,]+\\)"
>> attr)
>>                           (match-string 1 attr))
>>                floatp (or caption label))
>> -         (setq lines (split-string raw-table "\n" t))
>> +         (setq lines
>> +                (if (< emacs-major-version 22)
>> +                    (split-string raw-table "\n")
>> +                  (split-string raw-table "\n" t)))
>>          (apply 'delete-region (list beg end))
>>          (when org-export-table-remove-special-lines
>>            (setq lines (org-table-clean-before-export lines
>> 'maybe-quoted)))
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
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