Re: LaTeX export of tables

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Francesco Pizzolante <fpz@missioncriticalit.com>
Cc: mailing-list-org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: LaTeX export of tables
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:17:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6FFD114C-32B9-443A-AF6A-004BEB965B90@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87my3n4muo.fsf@missioncriticalit.com>

On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Francesco Pizzolante wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can I give this thread a bump?

Hi Francesco,

Org-mode LaTeX export is intended to give you a way to
export your file as LaTeX.  It can never hope to give you
all the formatting options LaTeX has.  Sure, what you are saying could  
be implemented, but so could many other things.  If you can come up  
with a patch, I would consider it, but I am so strained to keep up  
with the daily stuff, I don't expect to be able to put time into this.

An alternative to do this is to post-process your file using one of
the hooks and to switch out the environment used at that moment.

- Carsten

>
> Francesco Pizzolante wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When exporting tables to LaTeX, I think it would be good to have  
>> the following
>> options to be able to define:
>>
>>  - the table environment to be used: now we have the option to have  
>> tabular
>>    and longtable, but I could also use array, tabular*, tabularx,  
>> tabulary,
>>    etc.
>>
>>    The general rule is:
>>
>>    \begin{TABLEENV}{WIDTH}[VPOS]{COLS}
>>    ROWS
>>    \end{TABLEENV}
>>
>>    TABLEENV can be any of tabular, array, tabular*, tabularx, etc.,  
>> depending
>>    on the type of table I want.
>>
>>    Some types of table need a WIDTH to be specified; in this case,  
>> I would
>>    add a WIDTH option. An extra vertical position VPOS option can  
>> also be
>>    added to some types of table.
>>
>>    The COLS parameter already receives the value from the "align" org
>>    attribute.
>>
>>    The following options
>>
>>    #+ATTR_LATEX: tabularx width=\textwidth align=lX vpos=tb
>>
>>    would generate the following LaTeX code:
>>
>>    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}[tb]{lX}
>>    ROWS
>>    \end{tabularx}
>>
>>
>>  - the rule to be used as hline (similar option as in
>>    #+ORGTBL: :hline="\\midrule"):
>>
>>    #+ATTR_LATEX: hline=midrule or #+ATTR_LATEX: hline="\\midrule"
>>
>>
>>  - define the top and bottom rules:
>>
>>    #+ATTR_LATEX: toprule="\\toprule" bottomrule="\\bottomrule"
>>
>>
>> Does it make sense? Would it be possible to have these new options  
>> in a future
>> orgmode release?
>
> I really am eager to use orgmode in order to generate all my LaTeX  
> documents.
> But, as of now, the LaTeX export of tables offers only limited  
> flexibility.
>
> My proposal is simply to add a few org attributes (type of the  
> table, toprule,
> bottomrule, hline, vpos) in order to get an improved flexibility when
> generating LaTeX tables.
>
> Can someone take care of my request?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Francesco
>
>
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- Carsten