On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> Not this < > but this <>. i.e., no spaces between the angle
> brackets. Seems to work.
>

Thanks Jambunathan -- that did it.
The org and html are attached.
Still need to do some paste -d'|' and some hand-editing which I guess I
could automate...