You're absolutely right. The MWE I made had a nasty typo that blew everything up! I'm sorry for the noise.
The information in the manual still looks misleading to me: #+BEGIN_EXPORT ascii All lines in this block will appear only when using this back-end. #+END_EXPORT (Taken from "12.7 ASCII/Latin-1/UTF-8 export") This doesn't seem to be related to verbatim text. 2017-02-09 19:19 GMT+00:00 Charles C. Berry <ccbe...@ucsd.edu>: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Vicente Vera wrote: > > Hello. This discussion >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-02/msg00163.html >> points out that Org tables are converted to HTML tables when exporting >> through "ox-md". Leaving Markdown-related issues aside, I've stumbled >> upon this problem a while back. >> >> It is suggested that wrapping the table within a "#+(BEGIN|END)_EXPORT >> md" should leave it as-is in the exported document but that is not the >> case. The table gets converted to HTML anyway. >> >> > Not in recent versions of org. Here is an example of a table that is > exported as a table without any html-ization: > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results raw > (org-export-string-as > " > ,#+begin_export md > | a | > | b | > ,#+end_export" > 'md t) > > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > | a | > | b | > > > Of course, the comma escapes are stripped before `org-export-string-as' > sees the string. > > HTH, > > Chuck >
