andrew dasys <adasys@objectivity.ca> wrote:

> 
> * MASH 
> | id | Actor         | Character                 |
> |----+---------------+---------------------------|
> |  1 | Allan Alda    | "Hawkeye" Benjamin Pierce |
> |  2 | Gary Burghoff | "Radar" Walter O'Reilly   |
> |  3 | Loretta Switt | "Hotlips" Margaret Hoolihan  |
> 
> ....[export to latex gets error]....

I cannot reproduce this - the export succeeds (but see below). Version info:

GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2009-03-06 on alphaville.usa.hp.com
Org-mode version 6.24

> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments #[(string &optional separators) " ÆÇÈÉ
> & ÇU& GW& T' #Y ÇGWY ÊÇÇ=S ÇÇ=K Ç=S ÇO	BÇ G=g ÈO	B	," [separators list notfirst start rexp string "[ 	
> ]+" 0 nil string-match t] 5 1390318] 3)
>   split-string(#("| id | Actor         | Character                     |\n|----+---------------+-------------------------------|\n|  1 | Allan Alda    | ``Hawkeye'' Benjamin Pierce   |\n|  2 | Gary Burghoff | ``Radar'' Walter O'Reilly     |\n|  3 | Loretta Switt | ``Hotlips'' Margaret Hoolihan |\n" 0 2 nil 2 4 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 4 7 nil 7 12 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 12 23 nil 23 32 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 32 113 nil 113 114 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 114 117 nil 117 127 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 127 133 nil 133 135 (org-protected t) 135 141 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 141 142 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 142 144 (org-protected t) 144 160 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 160 168 nil 168 169 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 169 172 nil 172 185 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 185 188 nil 188 190 (org-protected t) 190 194 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 194 195 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 195 197 (org-protected t) 197 213 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 213 223 nil 223 224 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 224 227 nil 227 240 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 240 243 nil 243 245 (org-protected t) 245 251 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 251 252 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 252 254 (org-protected t) 254 272 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 272 275 nil) "\n" t)
>   (setq lines (split-string raw-table "\n" t))

... and this looks very strange to me: split-string is similar to AWK's or Python's
split() function, which is supposed to split a string using the given separator,
and return a list of substrings. The argument to split-string is correct (the raw table
as a string), as is the separator ("\n"). So where does split-string get the ungodly
mess shown above? Is it possible that you have redefined split-string somehow? Or perhaps
some matching function that split-string uses?
What happens if you evaluate the following (just press C-x C-e after the
closing paren or cut-and-paste the expression into the *scratch* buffer
and press C-j)? What happens if you restart your emacs with -Q and
evaluate the same expression? In my setup, I can evaluate the following
with no errors:

(split-string #("| id | Actor         | Character                     |\n|----+---------------+-------------------------------|\n|  1 | Allan Alda    | ``Hawkeye'' Benjamin Pierce   |\n|  2 | Gary Burghoff | ``Radar'' Walter O'Reilly     |\n|  3 | Loretta Switt | ``Hotlips'' Margaret Hoolihan |\n" 0 2 nil 2 4 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 4 7 nil 7 12 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 12 23 nil 23 32 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 32 113 nil 113 114 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 114 117 nil 117 127 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 127 133 nil 133 135 (org-protected t) 135 141 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 141 142 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 142 144 (org-protected t) 144 160 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 160 168 nil 168 169 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 169 172 nil 172 185 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 185 188 nil 188 190 (org-protected t) 190 194 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 194 195 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 195 197 (org-protected t) 197 213 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 213 223 nil 223 224 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 224 227 nil 227 240 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 240 243 nil 243 245 (org-protected t) 245 251 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 251 252 (org-protected t fontified nil org-caption nil org-attributes nil org-label nil) 252 254 (org-protected t) 254 272 (org-label nil org-attributes nil org-caption nil fontified nil) 272 275 nil) "\n" t)

What version of emacs are you running? Also, can you do C-h f split-string RET
and tell us what that says?



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I said above that the export succeeds and it does, in the sense that I
get no errors.  However, the exported latex looks strange - the table
comes *before* the "MASH" section. Is this a bug or is it a peculiarity
of my configuration? Can somebody please try it and let me know?

Thanks,
Nick


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| % Created 2009-03-09 Mon 17:34
| \documentclass[11pt]{article}
| \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
| \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
| \usepackage{graphicx}
| \usepackage{longtable}
| \usepackage{hyperref}
| 
| 
| \title{andrew-dasys}
| \author{Nick Dokos}
| \date{09 March 2009}
| 
| \begin{document}
| 
| \maketitle
| 
| \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
| \tableofcontents
| \vspace*{1cm}
| 
| \begin{center}
| \begin{tabular}{rll}
|  id  &  Actor          &  Character                      \\
| \hline
|   1  &  Allan Alda     &  ``Hawkeye'' Benjamin Pierce    \\
|   2  &  Gary Burghoff  &  ``Radar'' Walter O'Reilly      \\
|   3  &  Loretta Switt  &  ``Hotlips'' Margaret Hoolihan  \\
| \end{tabular}
| \end{center}
| 
| 
| \section{MASH}
| \label{sec-1}
| 
| 
| 
| \end{document}
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