> > what is the best way to manage
> > leading/trailing spaces in a table cell?
> This i don't understand -- you want to *keep* the spaces
> in the exported table?
Not all spaces, but some spaces some of the time is needed.
The recent patch to org-babel-read by Erik Schulte makes this possible. See
second sentence below:
If a value starts with one of ('` it is read as an emacs lisp sexp.
If it starts with " then it's read as a quoted string: start/end quotes are
stripped, \" and \\ are unescaped
(this is useful for embedding leading/trailing whitespace in strings).
If it looks like a number, it's read as a number.
Else it's read as a literal string, without any quotation or escaping.
(Please note that | in tables is always interpreted as column separator and
currently there is no way to quote it)
