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 20:44:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc9x9v0s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft9Gr7_L_DcDtUr3LriWkcEeXzD1_OuN44dA2roigBPvww@mail.gmail.com> (John Hendy's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:40:10 -0600")
John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ah. Very good to know. Is this documented?
It was only announced on this ML.
> This is the syntax I use for babel blocks, but I've never seen it for
> #+attr_latex. The manual also doesn't show any =:option "value"=
> methods, at least in my initial peruse:
> - http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-LaTeX-export.html
> - http://orgmode.org/manual/Images-in-LaTeX-export.html#Images-in-LaTeX-export
>
> It's all in `option=value` format.
>
> Is your syntax (including the comment about cookies, as I haven't seen
> that in the org manual either) relevant for the old exporter, or only
> the new one? As I said, this is using the old exporter and I haven't
> migrated over yet...
The Babel-like syntax is only relevant for the new exporter.
The old exporter had some support for align cookies in table (depending
on the back-end).
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 19:45 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
2013-02-12 19:40 ` John Hendy
2013-02-12 19:44 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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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