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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:05:34PM -0800, Richard Lawrence wrote:
> 
> What about just maintaining the table as an embedded LaTeX block? e.g.
> 
> ... your Org text here ...
> #+BEGIN_LATEX
> \begin{tabular} % or wrap with \begin{table} if you need, etc.
> % ...
> \end{tabular}
> #+END_LATEX
> 
> That way, at least, you can edit your document and the table at the same
> time and in the same file, though it means giving up Org's nice table
> editing features.

Thank you, Richard! I was not aware of this, but it seems like it would have a slew of uses. (My first thought it to embed pstricks graphics into my documents, but then I'd have to bypass pdflatex and use xelatex or something instead.)

Thank you!

-pd


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