From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: latex export and beamer columns
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:29:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oom8tn8.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <876392lhfh.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:15:14 +0000")
Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>> At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:34:18 +0100,
>> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> > Anything missing in Org that we should implement to support this
>> > better?
>
> Actually, going through the set of lectures I am currently preparing,
> I am finding that there is one thing missing that I haven't needed
> before in latex export: the ability to centre a figure without having
> to use a float environment.
>
> Back in September, early October, there was a thread about image
> placement in latex export:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/18174/
>
> There was a number of use cases discussed: inline placement versus
> float placement. There is one use case missing, one that is
> particularly useful for presentations, although not often necessary
> for articles say, namely a figure centred on a line without a caption
> and without floating. This seemed to be present at some point in the
> past but has disappeared, unless I have misunderstood the state of
> play...
>
> Basically, I would like to do something like:
>
> ,----
> | In a double pipe heat exchanger,
> |
> | [[file:images/double-pipe-heat-exchanger.png]]
> |
> | the heat transfer etc. ad nauseum...
> `----
>
> and have that figure centred on the line instead of left aligned as it
> would currently appear.
>
> If I add a #+label: the image does appear centred but as this is done
> by using a latex figure environment, a Figure: caption (empty) is
> added which isn't particularly useful in this case!
>
> There *is* a solution, but it's a bit messy, e.g.:
>
> ,----
> |
> | \hfill
> | #+attr_latex: width=0.6\textwidth
> | [[file:images/double-pipe-heat-exchanger.png]]
> | \hspace*{\fill} \\
> |
> `----
>
> By the way, an \hfill at the end is not sufficient to centre the image.
>
> I have no solution to propose for incorporating something like this
> into org-mode other than possibly making use of a placement=centre
> (oops, center if you prefer american spelling) option on attr_latex
> which would put the includegraphics within a \centerline or \centering
> environment.
I've only used Beamer a few times, but I use the "center" environment to
center images. Could you perhaps use the following?
,----
| In a double pipe heat exchanger,
|
| #+begin_center
| [[file:images/double-pipe-heat-exchanger.png]]
| #+end_center
|
| the heat transfer etc. ad nauseum...
`----
Best,
Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-22 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-21 12:49 latex export and beamer columns Eric S Fraga
2009-11-21 13:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-22 12:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-22 15:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-22 15:29 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2009-11-22 19:31 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-23 13:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-23 22:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-24 0:02 ` Daniel Martins
2009-11-24 6:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-24 8:36 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-24 8:49 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-24 8:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-24 18:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-25 6:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-25 9:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-25 18:03 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-25 23:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-26 8:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-26 9:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-11-26 10:33 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-23 14:53 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-11-21 16:33 ` Thomas S. Dye
2009-11-22 12:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-26 1:52 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2009-11-26 18:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-11-26 19:54 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
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