Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Vikas Rawal]

I need to insert a table in an mdframed box, for which I need to turn off :float. The following, however, does not give me the caption:

#+name: milk-consumption-india
#+attr_latex: :float nil :environment tabular :caption \caption{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
| Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
|---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
| 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
| 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
| 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
| 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
| <4colc>Source: citet:anjani2014 |       |       |      |


I have also tried (along with #+latex_header: \usepackage{caption})

#+name: milk-consumption-india
#+attr_latex: :float nil :environment tabular :caption \captionof{table}{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
| Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
|---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
| 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
| 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
| 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
| 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
| <4colc>Source: citet:anjani2014 |       |       |      |

Vikas

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Vikas Rawal]

This seems to work:

#+name: milk-consumption-india
#+attr_latex: :placement [H] :environment tabular :caption \captionof{table}{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
| Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
|---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
| 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
| 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
| 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
| 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
| <4colc>Source: citet:anjani2014 |       |       |      |

Is :float deprecated?

Vikas

> On 11-Mar-2015, at 7:46 am, Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:
> 
> I need to insert a table in an mdframed box, for which I need to turn off :float. The following, however, does not give me the caption:
> 
> #+name: milk-consumption-india
> #+attr_latex: :float nil :environment tabular :caption \caption{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
> | Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
> |---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
> | 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
> | 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
> | 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
> | 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
> | <4colc>Source: citet:anjani2014 |       |       |      |
> 
> 
> I have also tried (along with #+latex_header: \usepackage{caption})
> 
> #+name: milk-consumption-india
> #+attr_latex: :float nil :environment tabular :caption \captionof{table}{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
> | Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
> |---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
> | 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
> | 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
> | 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
> | 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
> | <4colc>Source: citet:anjani2014 |       |       |      |
> 
> Vikas
> 
> 

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Rasmus]

> Is :float deprecated?

No but caption takes priority.  I'm working on this case, but my
dev. computer is not well at the moment.

—Rasmus

-- 
Bang bang

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Vikas Rawal]

> 
>> Is :float deprecated?
> 
> No but caption takes priority.  I'm working on this case, but my
> dev. computer is not well at the moment.
> 

We need to consider the scenario that if we need a captioned table without a floating environment, what is the right way of obtaining it. That is needed if you want to insert a table in an mdframed block. 

I have managed to get it using :placement, but I am not sure if that is the right approach.

Vikas

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Rasmus]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

>> 
>>> Is :float deprecated?
>> 
>> No but caption takes priority.  I'm working on this case, but my
>> dev. computer is not well at the moment.
>> 
>
> We need to consider the scenario that if we need a captioned table
> without a floating environment, what is the right way of obtaining
> it.

Is that a question?  A right approach is to use the float package as you
did.  I don't like it cause it redefines floats.  Another right approach
is not to make it a float if you don't want it to float....  Then you
could use something like capt-of to get a caption and increase the counter
in question.  This can be dangerous as floats could get out of order.

ATM for your example you could use either:

#+begin_mdframed
#+attr_latex: :float nil
#+LATEX: \captionof{table}{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
| Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
|---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
| 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
| 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
| 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
| 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
#+end_mdframed

As caption forces float, or

#+begin_mdframed
#+name: milk-consumption-india
#+attr_latex: :placement [H]
#+caption: Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum
| Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
|---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
| 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
| 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
| 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
| 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
#+end_mdframed

Which relies on package-float's H.

> That is needed if you want to insert a table in an mdframed block.

The previous discussion is here:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/95224/focus=95229

Feel free to beat me with a patch!

> I have managed to get it using :placement, but I am not sure if that
> is the right approach.

You are using the float package.  It's heretic, but don't worry about
it...

—Rasmus

-- 
Governments should be afraid of their people

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Vikas Rawal]

>> 
>> We need to consider the scenario that if we need a captioned table
>> without a floating environment, what is the right way of obtaining
>> it.
> 
> Is that a question?  A right approach is to use the float package as you
> did.  I don't like it cause it redefines floats.  Another right approach
> is not to make it a float if you don't want it to float....  Then you
> could use something like capt-of to get a caption and increase the counter
> in question.  This can be dangerous as floats could get out of order.
> 
> ATM for your example you could use either:
> 
> #+begin_mdframed
> #+attr_latex: :float nil
> #+LATEX: \captionof{table}{\label{milk-consumption-india}Average consumption of milk, India, kilograms per capita per annum}
> | Year                            | Rural | Urban |  All |
> |---------------------------------+-------+-------+------|
> | 1983                            |  38.7 |  55.6 | 44.7 |
> | 1993–1994                       |  50.3 |  66.4 | 54.3 |
> | 2004–2005                       |  50.2 |  69.3 |   55 |
> | 2009–2010                       |  51.7 |  71.6 | 57.1 |
> #+end_mdframed
> 
> 

Thanks, that is what I was trying to do for several days :).

> Which relies on package-float's H.
> 
>> That is needed if you want to insert a table in an mdframed block.
> 
> The previous discussion is here:
> 
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/95224/focus=95229
> 

I did see this, but needed an example to understand what was going to work. Specifying \captionof in a separate line did not occur to me.

> 
> You are using the float package.  It's heretic, but don't worry about
> it…
> 


:)

Thanks

Vikas

Re: Table caption in Latex export with :float nil

[Rasmus]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

> I did see this, but needed an example to understand what was going to
> work. Specifying \captionof in a separate line did not occur to me.

The point is merely that you need to "cheat" ox-latex to think there's not
a caption.

I used this macro as a workaround (since I also needed other backends
than).

#+MACRO: caption (eval (format (if (org-export-derived-backend-p org-export-current-backend 'latex) "@@latex:\\captionof{table}{%s\\label{%s}}@@" "#+CAPTION: %s") (org-trim "$1") (org-trim "$2")))

And then
{{{caption(⋯, NAME)}}}

in place of
#+CAPTION:⋯

You could probably make it smarter and capture the label automatically.

–Rasmus

-- 
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