Hello Andreas I have added support for character anchored images as part of the following commit release_7.8.03-201-g1d99fd7. I am attaching a sample Org file and the associated ODT output. Nicolas/Eric Don't be surprised. Please Read on ... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+TITLE: side-by-side.org #+AUTHOR: Jambunathan K #+EMAIL: kjambunathan@gmail.com #+DATE: 2012-01-23 Mon #+DESCRIPTION: #+KEYWORDS: #+LANGUAGE: en #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:dvipng skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport #+LINK_UP: #+LINK_HOME: #+XSLT: Nicolas, Does the existing behaviour as captured in [[Side-by-Side images laid out by hand]] be preserved with new export driver? Eric, 1. can the extraneous parbreaks in [[Side-by-Side images using Babel]] be removed? 2. Can [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-01/msg00678.html][this issue with #+header lines ]] be fixed? * Side-by-Side images using Babel Creating side-by-side images with Babel is problematic. #+caption: foo #+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char #+header: :file foo.png #+begin_src R :exports results :results graphics plot(1:100, 1:100) #+end_src #+caption: foo #+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char #+header: :file foo.png #+begin_src R :exports results :results graphics plot(1:100, 1:100) #+end_src The images are vertically stacked because Babel introduces extraneous parbreaks. This forces the images to be anchored as character, but to *successive* paragraphs. Here is a segment of Org buffer as seen by the ODT exporter at the end of =org-export-preprocess-string=. #+BEGIN_SRC org ,Creating side-by-side images with Babel is problematic. ,[[file:foo.png][file:foo.png]] ,[[file:foo.png][file:foo.png]] ,The images are vertically stacked because Babel introduces extraneous ,parbreaks. This forces the images to be anchored as character, but to ,*successive* paragraphs. #+END_SRC * Side-by-Side images laid out by hand To create side-by-side images flank them with paragraph boundaries. #+BEGIN_CENTER #+caption: foo #+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char #+header: :file foo.png [[./foo.png]] #+caption: bar #+ATTR_ODT: :width 7 :height 7 :anchor as-char #+header: :file bar.png [[./bar.png]] #+END_CENTER You should be seeing side-by-side images. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---