:placement documentation imprecise

:placement documentation imprecise

[edgar]

Hello,

I have this in the documentation (M-x org-info)

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
`:float'
`:placement'
      The table environments by default are not floats in LaTeX.  To
      make them floating objects use `:float' with one of the following
      options: `sideways', `multicolumn', `t', and `nil'.  Note that
      `sidewaystable' has been deprecated since Org 8.3.  LaTeX floats
      can also have additional layout `:placement' attributes.  These
      are the usual `[h t b p ! H]' permissions specified in square
      brackets.  Note that for `:float sideways' tables, the LaTeX
      export back-end ignores `:placement' attributes.
#+END_QUOTE

But, if I use sideways alone (not sidewaystable), the table is not 
rotated.

I don't think that this is very important, but I wanted to let you know 
in case that there is some intention to fix it :) .

Thanks for Org-mode!

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Re: :placement documentation imprecise

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

edgar@openmail.cc writes:

> But, if I use sideways alone (not sidewaystable), the table is not 
> rotated.

I cannot reproduce it. With the following document

  #+attr_latex: :float sideways
  | a | b |

the table is rotated, according to the following code:

  \begin{sidewaystable}[htbp]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
  \toprule
  a & b\\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: :placement documentation imprecise

[edgar]

You are right. I'm sorry. It works with :float, but not with :placement. 
I misread the documentation. Thanks for the answer!

On 2017-05-26 23:52, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> edgar@openmail.cc writes:
> 
>> But, if I use sideways alone (not sidewaystable), the table is not
>> rotated.
> 
> I cannot reproduce it. With the following document
> 
>   #+attr_latex: :float sideways
>   | a | b |
> 
> the table is rotated, according to the following code:
> 
>   \begin{sidewaystable}[htbp]
>   \centering
>   \begin{tabular}{ll}
>   \toprule
>   a & b\\
>   \bottomrule
>   \end{tabular}
> 
> 
> Regards,

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