On a related note, I have some emphasis formatting/cell width problems 
within tables.
I have some custom emphasis alist along with hiding the emphasis markers 
defined so...

'(org-emphasis-alist (quote (("*" bold "<b>" "</b>") ("/" italic "<i>" 
"</i>") ("_" underline "<u>" "</u>") ("=" org-code "<code>" "</code>" 
verbatim) ("~" org-verbatim "" "" verbatim) ("+" (:strike-through t) 
"<del>" "</del>") ("&" font-lock-keyword-face "" "") ("#" j-green-face 
"" "") ("^" j-highlight-face "" ""))))

 '(org-hide-emphasis-markers t)

where j-green-face or essentially the default face with the color green etc.

When I do an emphasis inside a table, the emphasis special characters 
would disappear and the correct formatting would appear on the word, 
however the right cell vertical divider character would get pulled in by 
1 character. <tab> does not resize the table cell properly. I need to 
manually insert a space to move the divider to the right and then 
everything would work as expected.  Just a minor annoyance..

Not sure if I explained the issue correctly...

Jose

Chris Randle wrote:
> Hi
>
> I define an Emacs abbrev of, say, "hnbc" to exapand to "how now brown
> cow", and then type "hnbc[space]" inside an org table cell. After it has
> expanded it pushes the trailing cell divider away, even though the cell
> width was adequate. Tabbing out of the cell doesn't re-fit the cell
> divider - it stays "stuck" where it was after the expansion.
>
> It's slightly odd, because if I type lots of leading spaces before the
> abbrev and then tab, org happily moves the expanded text back to the
> beginning of the cell, but still doesn't move the trailing divider.
>
> C-c C-c fixes it, and also moving the cursor over to the trailing cell
> divider and backspace one char and tab.
>
> Any other workarounds or suggestions?
>
>