Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: > Thorsten Grothe <i...@th-grothe.de> writes: > >> Hallo Nick, >> >> * Nick Dokos, 19.08.2014 00:13:53: >> >>> Sorry - disregard that. I didn't test with radio tables, I just did a >>> straight export. I'll try radio tables later. >> >> the attached file is a showing the latex code after the export from >> orgtbl -- see the result, I made some small comments on it... > > Yes, not only can I reproduce it, I bisected it and (surprise!) the > bisection fingered commit 79873390edd26a44cefc2050c7af470a7ed8fd07: my > "fix" to your previous complaint: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/88634 > > I'll take another look at org-table-clean-before-export.
OK - I have taken a closer look and I think my "fix" was wrong: I'm going to revert it. That will of course restore the previous behaviour where a first column that's empty is deleted on export. There is an argument to be made that that is "correct" behaviour: first, both the original version and Achim's rewrite implement that behaviour, but also the relevant section of the manual (section 3.5.10, Advanced Features) which lists the special first column characters includes <space> among them. That leaves the somewhat counterintuitive case of a completely empty first column which is therefore deemed special and gets stripped. This could be "fixed" as a special case but instead I propose to document that behaviour in the above section, with a suggested workaround: if you really, really want an empty first column, then add a second one. WDYT? -- Nick
