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.
>
>