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From: Kevin Foley <kfoley15@gmail.com>
To: Michel Schinz <michel@schi.nz>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: including the | character in a table
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:43:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF96XX1v5BYsKmo3jncXq0OR=nMgV3aBw4T5X39=5ZGbOU3hdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1532514079.1723507.1452263448.11595CD6@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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You can use \vert to insert pipes in exported tables.


Kevin


On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 6:21 AM Michel Schinz <michel@schi.nz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, at 11:22, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> > I'm writing a cheat sheet for a programming language, and I'm having
> > trouble with operators that use |. For instance:
> >
> > | match expr with   | pattern matching |
> > | | pattern -> expr | action           |
> >
> > How can I escape the |? I tried putting a \ before but it does not work.
>
> I've used macros in the past for such a case. Quite heavyweight, but I
> didn't find anything better. Here is an example (which you could augment if
> you wanted to export to LaTeX too):
>
> #+MACRO: I @@html:&#124;@@
>
> | match expr with        | pattern matching |
> | {{{I}}}pattern -> expr | action           |
>
> Michel.
>
>

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-25 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-25  9:22 including the | character in a table Alan Schmitt
2018-07-25 10:21 ` Michel Schinz
2018-07-25 11:43   ` Kevin Foley [this message]
2018-07-25 12:16     ` Alan Schmitt
2018-07-25 12:19       ` Kevin Foley

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