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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: org-table latex export does not honour alignment [7.5]
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:46:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o0o7q2u.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <arikm8vq19c9h.fsf@mq.edu.au> (Arik Mitschang's message of "Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:01:30 +1000")

Arik Mitschang <arik.mitschang@gmail.com> writes:

> When exporting a file to latex, the alignment of tables within that file
> specified via the in-table <l>,<c> or <r> fields are not honoured. For
> example:
>
> |-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------|
> |-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------|
> | long header | header a | header b | header c | header d |
> |-------------+----------+----------+----------+----------|
> | <l>         | <l>      |      <r> |      <r> |      <r> |
> | 1           | 2        |        3 |        4 |        5 |
> | 6           | 7        |        8 |        9 |       10 |
> | /           | >        |          |          |          |
>
>
> should have the first two columns left-aligned and the last three right
> aligned. The vertical line in the table above is present. This also is
> the case when forcing a table environment via #+CAPTION. The table above
> generates the tabular command:
>
> \begin{tabular}{rr|rrr}
>
> Where it should generate:
>
> \begin{tabular}{ll|rrr}

You can specify the alignment for latex export directly if you put this
line before the table itself:

  #+attr_latex: align=ll|rrr

cf. (org) Tables in LaTeX export,

[[info:org#Tables%20in%20LaTeX%20export][info:org#Tables in LaTeX export]]

HTH,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.257.g0dd1)

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07  5:01 Bug: org-table latex export does not honour alignment [7.5] Arik Mitschang
2011-09-07  7:46 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-09-08  7:02   ` Arik Mitschang
2011-09-08  9:02     ` Eric S Fraga

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