Thanks Nick.

- Whoops on forgetting the = in my first example!
- Is this hard to integrate? Is it possible to pass this option to LaTeX
just as with figures? It only involves overriding [htb] with [H]...

John

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I had a problem with floating tables/figures a ways back, found here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg25566.html
> >
> > The solution, which was simply inserting #+ATTR_LATEX: placement=[H],
> worked perfectly.
> >
> > I just ran into it again, however. my org file has the following order in
> a section:
> >
> > * section
> > text before table 1
> > table 1 (featuring both #+CAPTION and #+ATTR_LATEX: placement [H])
> > text before table 2
> > table 2 (featuring both #+CAPTION and #+ATTR_LATEX: placement [H])
> >
>
> [Just a note for the unwary: the syntax above is not quite correct -
> John gives the correct syntax below in his example.]
>
> > But it's being exported to pdf like so:
> >
> > text before table 1
> > text before table 2
> > table 1
> > table 2
> >
> > The exported .tex has this for table 1:
> > \begin{table}[htb]
> > \caption{table 1 caption}
> > \begin{center}
> >
> > If I manually change the \begin{table}[htb] line to \begin{table}[H],
> things work exactly as I want. Somehow the [H] option just isn't making it
> > through...
> >
> > Just to be sure I created an blank org file with only this:
> >
> > * test
> >
> > #+CAPTION: test table
> > #+ATTR_LaTeX: placement=[H]
> > | 1    | 2    | 3    | 4    |
> > |------+------+------+------|
> > | test | test | test | test |
> > | test | test | test | test |
> >
> > It gets exported to this:
> >
> > \begin{table}[htb]
> > \caption{test table}
> > \begin{center}
> > \begin{tabular}{llll}
> >
> > Did something change between 6.35 and 7.01 or in the LaTeX table options?
> >
>
> I think that placement works fine for figures, but not for tables. In
> fact, I cannot find the code that's supposed to do this for tables: I
> suspect that it never existed. So unless I'm mistaken, it seems that
> tables never got the placement treatment that figures did.
>
> Nick
>