I say: go for it! On Saturday, February 4, 2012, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > John Hendy writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Dominik >> wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen wrote: >>> >>>> There is a patch from me waiting to be incorporated into org mode that lets one use booktabs as export for normal org tables. >>>> >>>> You can find it @ http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/1016/ >>> >>> Hi NIels, >>> >>> I am looking now at this patch, and maybe it would be better to implement these three variables as one, holding a property or association list? Makes it easily extendable. >>> >>> Equally important - it would be great if you could try to implement this same change in the new exporter engine from Nicolas, to ensure that the new exporter will not lag behind. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> - Carsten >>> >> >> Any new thoughts on this? It would be great if this could be adjusted >> as mentioned and merged into org-mode! I'm still using the current >> patch from Niels in a separate branch because I like it so much! > > I looked at the patch. I think the three variables expose too much Org > internals to the user. It would be simpler to make use of > `org-export-latex-tabular-environment' with a "booktabs" value. Also > and #+attr_latex: booktabs should transform the table into > a booktab-table locally. > > If Niels Giesen (CC'ed) doesn't mind, I will implement a modified > version of his changes for the new exporter, in a couple of days. > > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou > -- http://pft.github.com