From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Karl Stump <karlstump@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LaTeX multicolumn count wrong in table export
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:01:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10440.1251518482@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:04:52 EDT." <14924.1251500692@alphaville.usa.hp.com>
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> Karl Stump <karlstump@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > When exporting a table with a horizontal line the column count is wrong.
> >
> > Output from pdflatex run:
> >
> > ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.
> > <template> \endtemplate
> >
> > l.32 ....\multicolumn{4}{r}{Continued on next page}
> > \
> >
> > ** table export test
> >
> > #+CAPTION: This is a long table with lines around and between cells
> > #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
> > #+LATEX_HEADER: \geometry{left=0.12in,right=0.12in,top=0.25in,bottom=0.25in}
> > #+ATTR_LaTeX: longtable align=||lll||
> >
> > | / | <30> | <10> | <10> |
> > | | Heading1 | Heading2 | Heading3 |
> > |---+----------+----------+----------|
> > | | alpha | beta | gamma |
> > | | | | |
> >
> > start: 0000-00-00 end: 0000-00-00
> >
>
>
> I believe it's because of the dummy "calculation-mark" column,
> which is not exported. However, the variable org-table-last-alignment
> (a list, whose length becomes the value of the \multicolumn argument)
> ends up having the value (nil nil nil nil), i.e. it counts the dummy
> column as well. What the proper place to adjust the value is, I don't
> know, but it should be easy for Carsten to fix it. For the time being,
> you can either get rid of the dummy row and column (e.g. if you don't
> need the widths) or fix it by hand in the LaTeX file.
>
I think the following patch fixes the above problem and is correct in
its essentials:
diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
index c21c9ce..d41c231 100644
--- a/lisp/org-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
\\endhead
\\hline\\multicolumn{%d}{r}{Continued on next page}\\
\\endfoot
-\\endlastfoot" (length org-table-last-alignment))
+\\endlastfoot" (- (length org-table-last-alignment) (if org-table-clean-did-remove-column 1 0)))
nil)))
(if (not longtblp) (concat "\n\\end{tabular}"))
(if longtblp "\n" (if org-export-latex-tables-centered
HTH,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-29 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 21:51 LaTeX multicolumn count wrong in table export Karl Stump
2009-08-28 23:04 ` Nick Dokos
2009-08-29 4:01 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2009-08-29 5:24 ` Carsten Dominik
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