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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:20:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTins6NFEoJ2C1mxq=QxAPYySDQ0nsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimbQyAP_f=-Ji_5XtPSLU7YoScVhg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Alan,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to apologize first, as I had this working at home, to some extent.
> Not well.  I have to submit a printout of   grades, today, if possible, and
> I've been struggling with it.   Can't find the cookbook formula!   (I would
> like to use the \footnotesize feature also).  So far I've had to go through
> each table, deleting long words, and deleting some fields.  WOuld rather
> have some way to do it as is.
>
> How to do this?  The table should break over two pages.  It would seem to me
> that some combination of sidewaystable and longtable might do it.
>

As Nick suggests, an #+ATTR_LaTeX: line with longtable and wrapping
your table in

\usepackage{lscape}

#+LATEX: \begin{landscape}
...
#+LATEX: \end{landscape}

should do the trick.

For the use of \footnotesize, you can look at the following Worg page:
<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-1_6_1>

>
> Alan Davis
>

Hope this helps.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-15  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-15  2:50 Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF Alan E. Davis
2011-06-15  3:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-15  4:20 ` suvayu ali [this message]
2011-06-15  5:00   ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-15  5:17     ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-15  5:24     ` Suvayu Ali
2011-06-15  5:49       ` Nick Dokos
2011-06-15  6:07         ` suvayu ali
2011-06-15  6:31           ` Nick Dokos
     [not found]       ` <BANLkTimmUA6UtZ0tfu-US1bRqV-MiPCvBw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-15  6:02         ` Alan E. Davis
2011-06-15  6:11       ` Alan E. Davis

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