Patch by Stephen Peters.
Stephen writes:
> When creating a table, I was noticing that the
> <colgroup><col>... provides useful alignment information based on
> whether or not the column has numbers in it. I think, however, that
> there is a mistake in this routine. Take, for example, the following
> table:
>
> | Id | Task | Developer | Estimate | Spent | Remaining | Comp.% | Updated |
> |-----+--------------+-----------+----------+-------+-----------+--------+-----------------|
> | 1 | Task One | SLP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 2 | Task Two | SLP | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 3 | Task Three | SLP | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 4 | Task Four | SLP | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 5 | Task Five | SLP | .25 | 0 | 0.25 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 5.1 | Another Task | XML team | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 6 | Task Six | SLP | .25 | 0 | 0.25 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 6.1 | More Tasks | DB team | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
> | 7 | Task Seven | SLP | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | SLP, 2010-04-27 |
>
> When the colgroup list is created for this table, it reads:
>
> <colgroup><col align="right" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="right" /><col align="right" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" />
> </colgroup>
>
> Note that the first columns are correct, but the last few are not. It
> should read right, left, left, right, right, right, right, left.
>
> I believe that this is due to the (< i nline) comparison within
> org-format-org-table-html, which is nonsensical because it's trying to
> compare a column number with a number of rows. I've attached a patch
> for the problem.
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