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Re: [O] including the | character in a table
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Michel Schinz |
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Re: [O] including the | character in a table |
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Date: |
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:21:19 +0200 |
Hello,
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, at 11:22, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> I'm writing a cheat sheet for a programming language, and I'm having
> trouble with operators that use |. For instance:
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> | match expr with | pattern matching |
> | | pattern -> expr | action |
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> How can I escape the |? I tried putting a \ before but it does not work.
I've used macros in the past for such a case. Quite heavyweight, but I didn't
find anything better. Here is an example (which you could augment if you wanted
to export to LaTeX too):
#+MACRO: I @@html:|@@
| match expr with | pattern matching |
| {{{I}}}pattern -> expr | action |
Michel.