additional bugs in latex export

additional bugs in latex export

[John Rakestraw]

Hi --

I'm starting to use latex export more, and noticed three problems
related to tables:

  - If the first column in a table has an inactive time stamp, then
    strange things happen -- in various tests, I've seen only
    seemingly random cells from a long table exported, or sometimes
    only the header row (that doesn't have the time stamp in it) and
    no other rows exported.
  - If the text in the first column begins with a left bracket, then
    the first cell in each row is blank.
  - If a table is long enough that it should continue on a following
    page, there's no page break -- instead, lines continue into the
    bottom margin. What fits on that page prints, but nothing else
    prints. If I break the table at the bottom of the page with an
    empty line, the rest of the table continues as expected on the
    following page.

-- 
John Rakestraw

Re: additional bugs in latex export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:39 AM, John Rakestraw wrote:

> Hi --
>
> I'm starting to use latex export more, and noticed three problems
> related to tables:
>
>  - If the first column in a table has an inactive time stamp, then
>    strange things happen -- in various tests, I've seen only
>    seemingly random cells from a long table exported, or sometimes
>    only the header row (that doesn't have the time stamp in it) and
>    no other rows exported.

At least with the current version I cannot reproduce this - but I
have been fiddling with the Export.  Please try if you still have
this issue, and if yes, make me a test case.

>
>  - If the text in the first column begins with a left bracket, then
>    the first cell in each row is blank.

Same as above.

>  - If a table is long enough that it should continue on a following
>    page, there's no page break -- instead, lines continue into the
>    bottom margin. What fits on that page prints, but nothing else
>    prints. If I break the table at the bottom of the page with an
>    empty line, the rest of the table continues as expected on the
>    following page.

This is a problem with LaTeX, a special environment is needed
for such tables, and because Org does not know the font and paper
sizes, it cannot automatically switch.

However, you can do now:

#+ATTR_LaTeX: longtable

| a | b | c |
|-----------|
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
.........


which will switch to the long table environment just for this table.

Hope this helps.

- Carsten