Carsten Dominik writes: > On 3.10.2011, at 16:43, Nick Dokos wrote: > >> Eric S Fraga wrote: >> >>> tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: >>> >>>> Nick Dokos writes: >>> >>>>> The following patch (deliberately hidden as a binary octet-stream to keep it >>>>> out of patchwork) will do that - but IMO, it would be better to have yet another >>>>> user-settable option to control the placement. >>>>> >>>>> Nick >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Aloha all, >>>> >>>> The inlined patch introduces a variable >>>> org-export-latex-table-caption-above to control the placement of table >>>> captions. Thanks to Nick Dokos for leading the way on this. >>>> >>>> Tom >>> >>> >>> thanks for doing this -- I was swamped last week so had no chance of >>> following the thread until today! >>> >>> One comment on the last version of the patch: would it not be better for >>> the variable to be a defcustom variable instead of defvar? >> >> I agree - being able to customize variables without resorting to lisp is >> generally preferable: it is friendlier to newcomers and it allows even >> experienced users to find the various knobs. > > If you provide a new patch doing a defcustom, I think this patch would be > good to have. Please go ahead and check it in! > > - Carsten > Aloha Carsten, The inlined patch changes the defvar to a defcustom. It is meant to be applied after the first patch. All the best, Tom