From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: issues with export of LaTeX figure captions Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 09:18:04 +0200 Message-ID: <86fvy0y3tf.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <87y5bt9bjz.fsf@iinet.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi RJ, RJ Cunningham wrote: > I've encountered an issue/difference with the way the recent "babel > processor" handles captions. > > In versions prior to 8 the following WORKED (on export produced a figure > environment with a caption): > > #+CAPTION: Fails to produce table environment and so caption in the new orgmode > #+LABEL: fig:fails > #+begin_src R :session :results graphics :file fails.pdf :exports results > plot(1:10) > #+end_src Side-remark: I find it weird, if not uncorrect, to have the header argument ":session" empty. IIRC, this is, at best, dangerous, because it could interpret what follows as its value. > Under orgmode version 8.0.2 (8.0.2-2-g93da18-elpa the same code does > not work, the includegraphics is exported sans the figure environment. > > Under this latest orgmode the following does work: > > #+begin_src R :session :results graphics :file ok.pdf :exports results > plot(1:10) > #+end_src > #+CAPTION: Succeeds to produce table environment and so caption > #+LABEL: fig:OK > #+RESULTS[2d39a23f088d95e808bb867f97a0ecd2df621bbd]: > [[file:ok.pdf]] > > However, this second construction of code has the following issues: > 1. it is different to prior method which worked Yes, a lot of changes have been made in Org 8. This is for good, even if the switch can be somewhat painful. > 2. it is ugly to have the caption sandwiched between the code and the > results Not really. Please well think that there are two different beasts here: the code block and the results block. You can export both, and you could attach (different) captions to both. So, that does not seems that illogical to me. > 3. often, but not always, when the code is re-executed the caption and > label is lost Can you provide an ECM for this? > I also see that HTML export also fails to produce a caption. Confirmed, in a 1-min test. Though, I had the impression that captions were handled in ox-html. To be further checked. > Is this an issue in orgmode that can be addressed or is it an issue with > my understanding? I must admit as much as I like org-babel I have long > found the options for headers and arguments hard to understand well. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban