Re: Export of this table fails LuaLaTeX compilation

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> Gerard, we forgot to post the reason why \relax has been added after \\. 
> The intention was to  prevent errors in the case of
>
> | a   |
> | [b] |
>
> or
>
> - item \\
>    [2022-10-12]
>
> Stewart Thomas. [BUG] Tables with square brackets do not compile in PDF 
> (latex) export. Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:16:10 -0500. 
> https://list.orgmode.org/CAO12V+wB18nAN0FuDPAeN94GHdt_2nbdJtc4u7n4W3HAZbaZsA@mail.gmail.com
>
> I can not figure out an easy way to separate \\ from [b] text but to 
> prevent the problem you have discovered. I am unsure if
>
>      \\[0pt]
>
> has no negative consequences and safe enough. I expect that LaTeX 
> sources are not easy to read when fragile sequences of tokens are involved.

What about adding \relax in front of table rows instead of at the end?
The hlines are transcoded separately.

All other instances of \\\relax may remain.

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