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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Align argument in #+attr_latex for tabular env. is whitespace sensitive
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:22:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2w5ban3.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft9by1GD+MCJjQ3yB6JPA1fTLCYF5Vh3-ZsPht6mpwMr=w@mail.gmail.com> (John Hendy's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:30:45 -0600")

Hello,

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Was not getting the results I expected from #+attr_latex, so I created
> a simplified table to test:
>
> #+begin_src org
>
> Centered (will be sent to LaTeX as =\begin{tabular}{cc}=:
>
> #+attr_latex: align=cc
> | test           | test |
> | test of longer | test |
>
> Left aligned (will be sent to LaTeX as =\begin{tabular}{ll}=:
>
> #+attr_latex: align = cc
> | test           | test |
> | test of longer | test |
>
> #+end_src
>
> If there's reason for this, I can change my habits. I guess from
> various tidy programming habits, I'm just in the practice of
> separating equal signs with surrounding white space for easier
> readability. For what it's worth, these two behave identically:
>
> #+attr_latex: width=5cm
> #+attr_latex: width = 5cm
>
> I'm not sure why the tabular align argument is behaving differently.

This syntax is wrong anyway. It should be:

  #+attr_latex: :width "5cm"

or 

  #+attr_latex: :width 5cm

The same goes for :align. Also, for simple alignment strings, you can
provide align cookies within the table.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 17:30 Align argument in #+attr_latex for tabular env. is whitespace sensitive John Hendy
2013-02-12 19:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2013-02-12 19:40   ` John Hendy
2013-02-12 19:44     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-12 19:51       ` John Hendy
2013-02-15 10:05   ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-02-15 13:08     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-15 18:53       ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-02-15 19:44         ` Nicolas Goaziou

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