Re: How to escape characters in tables

[<Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com>]

On 3/3/11 9:07 PM, "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:25:57 -0600
><Ken.Williams@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.


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