From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Orri Subject: Help - | symbol as table content (the absolute value symbol). Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:41:24 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NhBVK-0004GW-Nv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:30 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55523 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NhBVK-0004GA-9L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhBVK-00084B-2R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:30 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.146]:9145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhBVJ-00083z-Rn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:30 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1755873eyg.34 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:41:28 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, I want to have the | symbol as part of the text in one table cell = (because in one column I have absolute values of a certain function and = I want to use |f(x)| in the header of that column). But all the | symbols are interpreted as columns separators (as usual). putting a backslash in front of it did not work (as well as several = other optimistic attempts). I have searched for a while unsuccessfully in the documentation and on = the web for this. Thanks in advance, Orri=