Re: [PATCH] customize latex table export

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Christophe,

On May 19, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> To produce documents in something approaching my organization's house
> style, I need to be able to style the headers of tables.  It's nice that
> orgtbl has the functionality for this, but the call to orgtbl-to-latex
> has a hard-coded list of parameters with no possibility for extension.
> With the attached patch, I am able to put e.g.
> 
> #+BIND: org-export-latex-tables-orgtbl-extra-parameters (:hfmt "\\multicolumn{1}{c}{\\bf\\color{white}\\cellcolor{blue}%s}")
> 
> in the header of my document, and tables throughout the document all
> pick up this style.
> 
> I daresay that this is not the optimal way of doing things; while this
> solves my immediate problem there is likely to be a more general way of
> doing things.

would it be better to be able to set these parameters on a per-table basis with ATTR_LaTeX ?
Would you like to try to prepare a patch to this effect?

- Carsten