From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: How to escape characters in tables Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:58:17 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20110303190707.06e8567c@bhishma.homelinux.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44266 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvXOa-00029K-Ls for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:58:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvXOY-00036r-My for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:58:24 -0500 Received: from mailout1-trp.thomsonreuters.com ([163.231.6.6]:50686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvXOY-00036T-HR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:58:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110303190707.06e8567c@bhishma.homelinux.net> Content-Language: en-US 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: fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, "Suvayu Ali" wrote: >On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600 > wrote: > >> The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' >> character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to >> figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter >> between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't >> seem to find? >>=20 > >I don't think you can. I'm making slight progress, actually. On StackOverflow=20 (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mo de), it was suggested to use the \vert{} character escape, which does work. =20 However, since this is code (a regular expression), I want it to appear monospaced, so I'm not out of the woods yet - here's a test case that shows my intent: | foo | =3Dm/foo\vert{}foodfight/=3D | The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =3D...=3D construction. Furthermore= , the =3D...=3D construction is problematic there because it conflicts with t= he start-of-formula syntax. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters http://labs.thomsonreuters.com