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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Org Table Export to Markdown Table Question
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:14:40 +0100
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Hello,

Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:

> On 2014-01-08 15:41, Aric wrote:
>> I am trying to use org-mode now with R code in it to write
>> manuscripts. That
>> does unfortunately mean that it must be eventually exported to some doc
>> format. I have been able to export to markdown and everything looks
>> good in
>> markdown (even previewed on github) with the exception of latex code
>> which is
>> not converted. However, using pandoc to convert the markdown to
>> docx, the
>> tables are not converted properly (all a single column).
>
> I'm not sure why you are using markdown as an intermediate file
> format. Org will export to latex, pdf (via latex) and openoffice odt
> (which can be exported from open/libre office to doc/docx.).
>
> Both the above exporters are much more mature that the markdown
> exporter.

BTW, Markdown export back-end turns tables into raw HTML code, which,
AFAIK, is allowed in Markdown.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou