Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
From: Camille persson camille.pers...@gmail.com
2011/3/4 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com
[...] here's a test case that shows my intent:
| foo | =m/foo\vert{}foodfight/= |
The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =...= construction. Furthermore,
the =...= construction is problematic there because it conflicts with
the
start-of-formula syntax.
=...= is used for code so it is printed as it written
You may use \texttt{}
| foo | \texttt{m\/foo\vert{}foodfight\/} |
Unfortunately that doesn't work when exporting to HTML though, I assume
it's for LaTeX export only?
I'd suggest there are 3 things that need to be addressed/fixed in org-mode.
First, the table-parser should respect =...= sections and skip over them,
just like a C preprocessor respects double-quoted string sections.
Second, there should be a way to indicate verbatim sections that doesn't
conflict with formula syntax.
Finally, there should be a way (e.g. \x{...}) to stick in a character by
ASCII/Unicode number. This would help with several issues when a literal
character is intended but it conflicts with a markup character.
--
Ken Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600
ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com wrote:
The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
seem to find?
I don't think you can.
I'm making slight progress, actually.
On StackOverflow
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mo
de), it was suggested to use the \vert{} character escape, which does
work.
However, since this is code (a regular expression), I want it to appear
monospaced, so I'm not out of the woods yet - here's a test case that
shows my intent:
| foo | =m/foo\vert{}foodfight/= |
The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =...= construction. Furthermore,
the =...= construction is problematic there because it conflicts with the
start-of-formula syntax.
--
Ken Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
Hi Ken,
2011/3/4 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com
On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600
ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com wrote:
The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
seem to find?
I don't think you can.
I'm making slight progress, actually.
On StackOverflow
(
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mo
de), it was suggested to use the \vert{} character escape, which does
work.
However, since this is code (a regular expression), I want it to appear
monospaced, so I'm not out of the woods yet - here's a test case that
shows my intent:
| foo | =m/foo\vert{}foodfight/= |
The \vert{} seems not to work inside a =...= construction. Furthermore,
the =...= construction is problematic there because it conflicts with the
start-of-formula syntax.
=...= is used for code so it is printed as it written
You may use \texttt{}
| foo | \texttt{m\/foo\vert{}foodfight\/} |
I don't have emacs right now so I can test it... but it should work
CP
--
Ken Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
http://labs.thomsonreuters.com
[O] How to escape characters in tables
I posted a question on Stack Overflow a few days ago, I'm wondering whether someone might want to take a look: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mode The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't seem to find? Thanks. -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters http://labs.thomsonreuters.com -- Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com writes: I posted a question on Stack Overflow a few days ago, I'm wondering whether someone might want to take a look: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5144862/escape-pipe-character-in-org-mode The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't seem to find? I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting document. You could always insert a character that looks like the '|' character, such as the unicode LIGHT VERTICAL BAR (0x2758) character, '❘', and I'm sure there are others that could be used... org should ignore this character as a table delimiter. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.592.gc431) -- Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
On 3/3/11 9:57 AM, Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com writes: ... I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't seem to find? I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting document. You could always insert a character that looks like the '|' character, such as the unicode LIGHT VERTICAL BAR (0x2758) character, '❘', and I'm sure there are others that could be used... org should ignore this character as a table delimiter. Thanks Eric. That's not a great solution in this case, because in order to work in a regex it needs to be the character '|', 0x7C. Is there some way to put in characters by ASCII code maybe? -- Ken Williams Senior Research Scientist Thomson Reuters http://labs.thomsonreuters.com -- Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [O] How to escape characters in tables
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600 ken.willi...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: The issue is that I've got tables whose cells contain the '|' character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter between cells. Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't seem to find? I don't think you can. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg00171.html Thanks. -- Ken Williams -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
