John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am struggling with float positioning. I would like to have a float at
>> the bottom of a page. Consider the following code:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> * Some text
>> #+NAME: test
>> #+begin_src R :exports results :file-ext pdf :results graphics :width 8 :height 3
>> plot(runif(100))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+RESULTS: test
>> [[file:test.pdf]]
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> which produces a pdf with the float directly after the heading. Now I
>> would like to have the float at the bottom of the page.
>>
>> I know about the float placement option, but how can I use them from
>> org? I have seem
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-specific-attributes.html but where do I
>> c=have to put the
>>
>> ,----
>> | #+ATTR_LATEX: :placement {b}
>> `----
>>
>> so that the float is at the bottom of the page?
>
> Latex attributes have to go above the =#+results: name= line so that
> babel doesn't get confused. If you put it in between the name and file
> link, re-running the block will generate a new one, as babel won't
> recognize it. This seems to work for me, though from a previous email
> I took a cue that I believe you need to also specify it as a float.[1]
> Someone else can correct if that's wrong!

You are spot on. I was missing the =:float t= part.

Now it works.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer


>
> #+begin_src org
>
> #+attr_latex: :float t :placement [b]
> #+RESULTS: test
> [[file:test.pdf]]
>
> #+end_src
>
> I get this as a result:
>
> #+begin_src latex
>
> \section{Some text}
> \label{sec-1}
> \begin{figure}[b]
> \centering
> \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth]{test2.pdf}
> \end{figure}
>
> #+end_src
>
> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg82889.html
>
>
> This pushes it to the bottom for me!
>
>
>
> John
>
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug
>> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
>> PGP: 0x0F52F982
>
>

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