Hi all, I know this is an ancient thread, but it seems the problem is still there, in Emacs 25.
FWIW, this is my quick and dirty fix, that at least produce a readable output, in Emacs as well as in the PDF output. (require 'org-colview) ;; Quick&dirty workaround to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/25821: replace ;; asterisks with some other character in the table automatically built by org-colview, because ;; when the table is exported to LaTeX they are misinterpreted as emphasis markup, resulting in ;; an unreadable hierarchy. (defun esk/org-replace-section-prefix (s) "Replace asterisks in Org heading with em-dashes." (when (string-match org-outline-regexp-bol s) (setq s (replace-match (concat (make-string (- (match-end 0) (match-beginning 0) 1) ?—) " ") t t s))) s) (defun org-listtable-to-string (tbl) "Convert a listtable TBL to a string that contains the Org-mode table. The table still need to be aligned. The resulting string has no leading and trailing newline characters." (mapconcat (lambda (x) (cond ((listp x) (concat "|" (esk/org-replace-section-prefix (mapconcat 'identity x "|")) "|")) ((eq x 'hline) "|-|") (t (error "Garbage in listtable: %s" x)))) tbl "\n")) Of course I'll be happy to hear about any better way to do it! ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. l...@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.