On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Lawrence Mitchell wrote: > Jambunathan K wrote: >> [1. text/plain] > > >> Exporting the below table to LaTeX throws an error. Let me know if you >> need any additional info. > >> [2. text/x-verbatim] > > >> *** Table.el Table with no Spanning >> +---------------+---------------+ >> |Term |Percentage | >> +---------------+---------------+ >> |Quarter |25% | >> |One-Fourth | | >> +---------------+---------------+ >> |Half |50% | >> |One-by-Two | | >> +---------------+---------------+ >> |Three-Quarters |75% | >> |Three-Fourths | | >> +---------------+---------------+ >> |Full |100% | >> |Whole | | >> +---------------+---------------+ >> [3. text/plain] > > A more minimal table demonstrating the problem is: > > +---+---+ > |foo|bar| > +---+---+ > |baz|33%| > +---+---+ > > This is because the percent signs are escaped in the table that > table.el sees, but the column width is not updated > appropriately. The export process converts "%" into "\%" so that > table.el sees the following table: > > +---+---+ > |foo|bar| > +---+---+ > |baz|33\%| > +---+---+ > > And so column/row calculations are incorrect. Since table.el's > export correctly deals with escaping of percent signs, one could > just remove the escapes from the table. > > It's possible that something like the below would fix things. > > diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el > index b8be87a..d591358 100644 > --- a/lisp/org-latex.el > +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el > @@ -1963,6 +1963,9 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and > STRING-AFTER." > floatp (or label caption)) > (and (get-buffer "*org-export-table*") > (kill-buffer (get-buffer "*org-export-table*"))) > + (save-excursion > + (while (search-forward "\\%" nil t) > + (replace-match "%" nil t))) > (table-generate-source 'latex "*org-export-table*" "caption") > (setq tbl (with-current-buffer "*org-export-table*" > (buffer-string))) > > Patchwork maintainers, please don't pick this up, it's a horrible > fix :P.
I have now turned off Org-mode special character preprocessing in table.el. So the above table should now export OK. However, note that table.el does not protect the ampersand, so tables with that will still fail. - Carsten
