Hi Tom,
Thanks for your patience. I did finally figure out what I was doing wrong.
I was using org-export-as-latex-to-buffer (which uses the default exporter)
instead of org-e-latex-export-as-latex or org-e-latex-export-to-pdf.
However, I am still unable to set something like ':align rr'  using
org-e-export-as-html; it defaults to left alignment (the latex export works
fine).

One of the reasons I am trying out the new exporter is to be able to use
booktabs and hopefully the threeparttable package which makes inclusion of
footnotes convenient (I prefer ctable but this probably requires a
different approach as it is implemented as a command).
Have you tried to use either of these packages?
Thanks.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> Aloha RCY,
>
> Here is a (too long) working example that shows how to pass attributes.
> See especially :align, where you've passed a symbol instead of a string.
> Note that the new exporter is still in contrib and that at this stage in
> its life is documented in the code and in some messages and
> announcements that Nicolas Goaziou sent to the mailing list. It is still
> necessary to refer to these scattered sources to learn about the new
> exporter.
>
>