On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:

> Aloha all,
>
> First, apologies for my rudimentary programming skills.  The  
> attached patch partially answers the query I posed earlier: the  
> shortn argument was ignored except for the wrapfigure environment.   
> The attached patch makes other environments aware of shortn.
>
> This works, sort of.  If all the #+CAPTION: lines are of this form # 
> +CAPTION: [shortn]{caption}, then all goes well.  If one caption of  
> this form is followed by others of this form #+CAPTION: caption,  
> then the list of figures contains repeated entries of shortn.  I  
> suspect there is code somewhere that clears a variable.  I can try  
> to look for it, but I have to tell you that the lisp code to org- 
> mode looks like magic spells to my untrained eye.
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
> <0001-lisp-org-latex.el-Enable-optional-argument-to-LaTeX-.patch>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>
>> Aloha all,
>>
>> I stumbled across code in org-exp.el and org-latex.el that appears  
>> to my untrained eye to be designed to parse the optional argument  
>> to the LaTeX \caption command.
>>
>> This bit in org-exp.el appears to parse out the optional command:
>>
>> 	  (when (string-match "\\[\\(.*\\)\\]{\\(.*\\)}" cap)
>> 	    (setq shortn (match-string 1 cap)
>> 		  cap (match-string 2 cap)))
>>
>> Then it is easy to find code in org-latex.el by searching for  
>> 'shortn' that looks like it writes out the full command to the .tex  
>> file.
>>
>> I can't find documentation for this, though.  It looks (to my  
>> untrained eye) like it should be possible to write something like:
>>
>> #+CAPTION: [short]{long}
>>
>> and get
>>
>> \caption[short]{long} in the .tex file.
>>
>> But this doesn't work for me.  The [short] part doesn't make it  
>> into the .tex file.
>>
>> I don't know enough lisp to figure this out in a reasonable amount  
>> of time, so have come to the list to ask if anyone familiar with  
>> the code knows whether this should work or not, and if it should  
>> work, how to markup the org file.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Tom
>>
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