Okay, a start on this using hooks: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun esf/process-table-tblfm (backend) "Process the TBLFM line to make it available for export as a verbatim block" (while (re-search-forward "^ *#\\+TBLFM:" (point-max) t) (replace-match ":") (let ((start (point)) (end (progn (forward-line) (point)))) (goto-char start) (while (re-search-forward "::" end t) (replace-match "\n: "))) ) ) (add-hook 'org-export-before-parsing-hook 'esf/process-table-tblfm) #+end_src
I'm sure there's a much easier way to do this but, for now, this does what I need. thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.92.1, Org release_8.3.4-705-g716e33