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...