I had a quick look at table.el

It exports only a tabular command, not a table. Is there a way to make org
wrap the

\begin{tabular}
\end{tabular}

into a regular

\begin{table}
\end{table}

This would be perfectly correct latex, and keep the export mechanism,
neatly separated

Cheers

Uli

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 04:37 Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> "Ulrich G. Wortmann" <uli.wortmann@utoronto.ca> writes:
>
> > the following problem occurs reproducibly with  GNU Emacs 26.1 (see below
> > for details), even when starting emacs with -Q
> >
> > If I use a table in my org file and convert that table to table.el the
> > caption is not exported into either the HTML or Latex File. Export to
> ASCII
> > works as expected. If I convert the table back to org-table format, the
> > Latex and HTML export of the caption work as expected. As a side note,
> any
> > other #+ expressions (e.g., Latex-Attr, Labels etc) won't be exported
> > either if the table is in table.el format
> >
> > Expected behavior: #+CAPTION:  is being exported regardless what table
> > format has been selected.
> >
> > #+CAPTION: Test caption on top of table.el
> > +---+---+---+
> >
> > | 1 | 2 | 3 |
> > +---+---+---+
> > | 4 | 5 | 6 |
> > +---+---+---+
> > | 6 | 7 | 8 |
> > +---+---+---+
>
> Export of table.el tables is not handled by Org, but by "table.el"
> library. In other words, Org keywords are expected to work only on Org
> tables.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
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