Org Table Export

Here’s an interesting tip from John D. Cook’s TeX and Typography Twitter feed:

The idea is that you can take an Org-mode table and export the corresponding LaTeX. That’s not as pointless as it seems because the TeX/LaTeX syntax for tables is, at least for me, hard to remember and using the Org table editor to layout the table is much easier to do. It also covers the case where you want to use an existing Org table in a LaTeX document, of course.

Realistically, this is not something I’d expect to get a lot of use because you might as well just write in Org to begin with but if you need to deliver some (human formatted) LaTeX or you just like using AUCTeX but hate laying out tables in it, this might be just what you need.

In any event, I hadn’t seen it before and it seemed worth sharing.

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