Hi Rustom,

I think the issue is that you have missed assigning a column (the 3rd) to a group.  Also, to simplify things, as stated no the link you gave, you can just specify the start of column groups.  Something like the following should work as expected:

* head
  | /         | <                   |<    | <   |
  | some text | and some more       | d e | fg  |
  |           |                     |     |     |

Chris

On Feb 16, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> I am trying to make (and understand!) column groups for html export
> According to http://orgmode.org/manual/Column-groups.html having a line starting / and then showing < for group start and group end makes column groups.
> 
> When I make and org file containing these 4 lines:
> 
> * head
>   | /         | <                 > |     | < > |
>   | some text | and some more       | d e | fg  |
>   |           |                     |     |     |
> 
> all that happens on export is that the / < > etc literally appear in the export!
> 
> Is there something else I should study?
> 
> Org-mode version 7.8.02

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