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 export
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:27:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg098z93.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cneicop.fsf@posteo.net>
Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
>> So, the difference between :environment and :float is that :float also
>> encapsulates \caption in addition to the actual environment (like
>> tabularx or includegraphics) used for transcoded exported element.
>
>> I can see how :float+:placement can be imprecise and that the existing
>> :environment indeed serves a different purpose. (It might be worth
>> clarifying this distinction in the manual - it seems arbitrary from
>> the first glance).
>
>> But what would be the better name then?
>
> I think the problem is limited to images, where there is no "double"
> environment as in the case of tables (float environment that encloses an
> environment to generate the table, and :placement points to the correct
> environment).
IMHO, an equivalent of :environment for images is
\includegraphics or \includesvg.
> ... In the case of images, I am afraid that the new features
> have advanced the meaning of the old ones. Previously, :float only
> supported t/nil ("figure" by default, in case of t) along with a few
> explicit "float" environments, such as sidewaysfigure or wrapfigure.
> Since :float now can accept any string as an environment name, Pandora's
> box has been opened and the meaning of the old :float has been left
> behind: for example, we can put :float minipage, and minipage is not a
> float environment. Something similar has happened to :placement.
>
> My suggestion is to add a :environment attribute next to another
> :environment-options attr (or something like that, to introduce any
> arbitrary LaTeX code). A LaTeX image can be enclosed in many environment
> types, float or non-float.
As I said above, I feel that :environment term will be overloaded then.
What about :wrap?
> ... However, :float can still be useful for
> certain combinations. For example, a minipage environment cannot include
> a caption (it produces an error of the type "LaTeX Error: \caption
> outside float").
Do we know in advance which environments support \caption and which not?
I feel that we may handle this programmatically without creating an array
of almost-identical attributes.
--
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2023-10-22 21:12 Are 'placement' and 'float' "obsolete terms" in inline images export Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-23 9:27 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-10-23 19:00 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2023-10-26 9:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-02 21:43 ` Juan Manuel Macías
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