From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: latex export and booktabs tables
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:05:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F5E3C2E-D77B-4627-8338-96D0C991D2E2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w5zd9po.fsf@gmail.com>
On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> One way to deal with this without adding even more complexity to the
> core of org-mode could be through the use of "Library of Babel"
> functions.
>
> The attached org-mode file provides a function for exporting to the
> longtable environment with some example usage. If this looks
> generally
> useful it (and maybe similar functions) could be added to the
> library of
> babel distributed w/Org-mode.
>
> What do you think? -- Eric
This looks like a great solution to me.
- Carsten
>
> <longtable.org>
> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> Erik Butz wrote:
>>> I found a very old thread on the list about using the booktabs
>>> package to
>>> have nicer tables in latex export.
>>>
>>> I found that, making the changes below I can use the booktab
>>> package to
>>> export tables, and using standard tables only, this seems to work
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> Can anyone advice on whether this kind of change is meaningful or
>>> if this is
>>> likely to introduce difficulties elsewhere which I did not
>>> experience due to
>>> the limited scope of usage? It should be said that I did not at
>>> all look
>>> into longtables so far.
>>
>> While trying to improve this, I think one could extend it so that
>> the table
>> environment can be changed as well, from `tabular' to `array',
>> `tabular*',
>> `tabularx' or any other.
>>
>> There was a discussion on this, a while ago, by Francesco
>> Pizzolante. Have a
>> read at: http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg18311.html
>> .
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Seb
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 21:36 latex export and booktabs tables Erik Butz
2010-06-22 23:03 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-06-23 8:23 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-06-28 5:09 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-28 6:05 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-06-28 8:45 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-06-28 15:16 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-28 20:07 ` Erik Butz
2010-06-28 20:14 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-06-29 8:00 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-06-29 17:10 ` Eric Schulte
2010-06-30 3:01 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-06-30 18:54 ` Eric Schulte
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