I spent some hours scratching my head trying to get tables out with
vertical lines, until Jambunathan suggested that I try not to put space
between the '<' and '>'
The patch adds a few words to the org.texi file to that effect.
WARNING: Ive never given a patch before! Nor used texi
Rusi
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index cc195d1..5259312 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -2267,7 +2267,8 @@ of columns, much like horizontal lines can do for groups of rows. In
order to specify column groups, you can use a special row where the
first field contains only @samp{/}. The further fields can either
contain @samp{<} to indicate that this column should start a group,
-@samp{>} to indicate the end of a column, or @samp{<>} to make a column
+@samp{>} to indicate the end of a column, or @samp{<>} (no space between @samp{<}
+and @samp{>}) to make a column
a group of its own. Boundaries between column groups will upon export be
marked with vertical lines. Here is an example:
