Re: [PATCH] Add margin option to float for figure in ox-latex.el

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>]

Aloha Kyle,

Barring a guru's user-end customization, Rasmus's figure 
:environment attribute idea is a good one.

The LaTeX float package has a facility to create and name 
environments that are handled like figures.  A figure :environment 
attribute in Org mode would provide a straightforward and flexible 
path to transcode them.

Thanks for looking into this.

Let me know if you have questions.

All the best,
Tom

Kyle Meyer writes:

> Thomas S. Dye writes:
>
>> This patch produces a LaTeX environment, marginfigure, that 
>> isn't
>> part of the standard.  AFAIK, marginfigure is defined in the
>> sidenotes package and separately in the tufte-latex class, 
>> neither
>> of which Org mode loads by default.  If the patch is applied, 
>> then
>> one of these packages should be added to the list of default 
>> LaTeX
>> packages so ox-latex doesn't export code it is unable to 
>> compile.
>>
>> My takeaway from the discussion surrounding ox-tufte-latex 
>> several
>> years ago is that support for non-standard LaTeX constructs 
>> should
>> not be part of Org mode core because they complicate 
>> maintenance
>> unduly.
>
> Thanks for your input and the helpful summary.  The stance in 
> the second
> paragraph sounds like a sensible one.
>
> Given the desire to use the marginfigure environment has popped 
> up a few
> times, I wonder if an ox-latex guru can suggest a user-end 
> customization
> that would enable the use of that environment.  I suppose an 
> alternative
> is Rasmus's proposal of an :environment attribute for figures 
> [*] that I
> mentioned in a sibling thread.
>
> [*]: https://yhetil.org/orgmode/878u31ycc5.fsf@gmx.us/


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