Re: allow table* specification with #+ATTR_LaTeX:

[Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Hi Eric,

It would be great to have a more general solution.  Tables are hard to  
typeset, so it might take a while to come up with a good  
specification.  Here is what I know about the LaTeX side of things.

** LaTeX destinations for an Org-mode table
*** Environments for typesetting a table
     - table placed in the output where it occurs in the input
     - all of these environments can be used on their own
**** tabular
      standard LaTeX environment, doesn't break across pages, no caption
**** tabularx
      extended environment that can automatically calculate column
      widths and wrap text within table cells, doesn't break across
      pages, no caption
**** tabulary
      like tabularx, but tries harder to come up with optimal column  
widths
**** supertabular
      extended tabular environment that breaks across pages, includes
      caption
**** supertabular*
      like supertabular, but for wide tables in a multicolumn page
      layout
**** mpsupertabular
      like supertabular, but also handles footnotes within the table
**** mpsupertabular*
      like mpsupertabular, but for multicolumn page layouts
**** longtable
      extended tabular environment that breaks across pages and
      includes a caption, but can't be used in a multicolumn page
      layout
*** Environment for floating a table and adding a caption
     floats a table typeset by some other environment to a place in the
     output that LaTeX determines appropriate, probably not where it
     occurs in the input
**** =table=, single column document
      typically wraps a =tabular=, =tabularx=, or =tabulary= environment
**** =table*=, multi-column document
      typically wraps a =tabular=, =tabularx=, or =tabulary= environment
*** "Typical" uses
     In our report production work we regularly use seven setups:
     - table or table* wrapped around tabularx or tabular
     - longtable
     - tabular or tabularx on their own

hth,
Tom
On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The attached patch allows the use of table* latex tables from within  
> Org
> mode documents using the attr_latex lines, for example
>
> #+CAPTION: A wide table
> #+LABEL: tbl:wide
> #+ATTR_LaTeX: table* align=l|lp{3cm}r|l
> | ... | ... |
> | ... | ... |
>
> Should this be added, or should we put together a more general  
> solution
> for different types of table environments?  Currently only longtable  
> is
> supported.  Also, is there already a way to do this that I have  
> missed?
>
> Thanks -- Eric
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
> index a261171..b7f48d3 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-latex.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
> @@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
>              (org-table-last-column-widths (copy-sequence
>                                             org-table-last-column- 
> widths))
>              fnum fields line lines olines gr colgropen line-fmt align
> -             caption shortn label attr floatp placement longtblp)
> +             caption shortn label attr floatp placement longtblp  
> tblenv)
>         (if org-export-latex-tables-verbatim
>             (let* ((tbl (concat "\\begin{verbatim}\n" raw-table
>                                 "\\end{verbatim}\n")))
> @@ -1758,6 +1758,9 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
>                          'org-label raw-table)
>                   longtblp (and attr (stringp attr)
>                                 (string-match "\\<longtable\\>" attr))
> +		  tblenv (if (and attr (stringp attr)
> +				  (string-match (regexp-quote "table*") attr))
> +			     "table*" "table")
>                   align (and attr (stringp attr)
>                              (string-match "\\<align=\\([^ \t\n\r]+\ 
> \)" attr)
>                              (match-string 1 attr))
> @@ -1821,7 +1824,8 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
>                        (concat
>                         (if longtblp
>                             (concat "\\begin{longtable}{" align "}\n")
> -                          (if floatp (format "\\begin{table}%s\n"  
> placement)))
> +                          (if floatp
> +			      (format "\\begin{%s}%s\n" tblenv placement)))
>                         (if floatp
>                             (format
>                              "\\caption%s{%s} %s"
> @@ -1852,7 +1856,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING- 
> BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
>                                               "\n\\end{center}\n"  
> "\n"))
>                         (if longtblp
>                             "\\end{longtable}"
> -                          (if floatp "\\end{table}"))))
> +                          (if floatp (format "\\end{%s}" tblenv)))))
>                       "\n\n"))))))))
>
> (defun org-export-latex-convert-table.el-table ()
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