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To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
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On Dec 9, 2013, at 5:19 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> Hi Thierry,
>=20
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:10:47PM +0000, Thierry Banel wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>=20
>>> This is not a lot of code - I would not mind simply integrating this =
into
>> org-table.el  The only hickup might be
>>> that this could be trouble for the exporters - or have you produced =
the
>> webpage directly from an org file?
>>=20
>> I'm not sure I understand the exporters issue.
>> Do you talk about the html exporter, the Odt exporter, and so on ?
>> Well, once a plot has been added to a table, it is just text.
>> It will be exported as any other content in the table.
>> Maybe I'm missing something...
>>=20
>> Yes, this webpage:
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html
>> was produced by the Worg engine, from a regular Org file.
>=20
> Technically speaking, it is not exported as a table since you put it =
as
> part of example block.  However a quick test tells me, html export =
will
> work fine (screenshot attached).  However LaTeX export is an entirely
> different story.  Unicode support in normal pdflatex is quite
> non-trivial.  If you use XeLaTeX, I think you could get it to work =
with
> some appropriate choice of fonts.  I tried libertine and dejavu =
without
> any luck.

Would it be possible to export it to \rule when using LaTeX?  It =
wouldn't be text then and you couldn't copy it, but it should work with =
any TeX engine regardless of fonts etc.  Just a thought.

-Ivan=