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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Are 'placement' and 'float' "obsolete terms" in inline images exported to LaTeX?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:10:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il7pw4oc.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jjatm6c.fsf@posteo.net>

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> An example of more "unexpected" (but very practical) uses is this one
> with three subfigures and the subcaption package:
>
> ┌────
> │ #+caption: Main caption
> │ #+begin_figure
> │ #+CAPTION: subcaption 1
> │ #+ATTR_LaTeX: :float subfigure :placement {\textwidth} :center nil :width \textwidth
> │ [[file:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.jpg]]
> ...
> I think this is a case where certain elements of Org have evolved
> (consciously or unconsciously) ahead of the names, and these names have
> become somewhat outdated. There is not only the case of :placement. Even
> :float seems imprecise, since can be used to create a minipage, and the
> minipage environment is not a float environment. Would it be worth
> making those names obsolete (with backward compatibility, of course) and
> replacing them with slightly more precise ones? I think that new names
> would give the user an idea of more variety of uses, like the examples I
> have put here.

I am not sure about obsolete - I see not reason to obsolete the intended
use case. Your example is rather an abuse.

What we might do it to introduce something like a new :wrap attribute:

#+attr_latex: :wrap subfigure,{\textwidht}

I think we have discussed something similar in the past, but more
generic - allow wrapping arbitrary Org elements (headings, drawers,
paragraphs, etc) on export.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-02 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-01 15:08 Are 'placement' and 'float' "obsolete terms" in inline images exported to LaTeX? Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-01 18:07 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-02 13:10 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-10-02 14:55   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-04  9:12     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-04 14:34       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-06 16:29         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-06 18:35           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-06 19:49             ` Ihor Radchenko

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