Re: table alignment tags in Org export

[Ihor Radchenko]

Alex Fenton <alex@pressure.to> writes:

> Trying to export a table with alignment tags, e.g.
>
>
> #+caption: left-, centre- and right aligned columns
> | <l>    |   <c>    |      <r> |
> | a      |    b     |        c |
> | aaaaaa | bbbbbbbb | cccccccc |
>
> In, for example, HTML or ODT output, the columns are aligned according 
> to the tags in the first row.
>
> If exporting to Org (org-org-export-as-org), the tags disappear - i.e. 
> the table is as-was, minus the first row.

Confirmed.

> Is there a way to retain the alignment information when re-exporting to 
> Org? - either a function or some setting somewhere

No. Currently, ox-org.el currently disregards table cell alignment and width.

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