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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Align argument in #+attr_latex for tabular env. is whitespace
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:22:08 +0100
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Hello,

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Was not getting the results I expected from #+attr_latex, so I created
> a simplified table to test:
>
> #+begin_src org
>
> Centered (will be sent to LaTeX as =\begin{tabular}{cc}=:
>
> #+attr_latex: align=cc
> | test           | test |
> | test of longer | test |
>
> Left aligned (will be sent to LaTeX as =\begin{tabular}{ll}=:
>
> #+attr_latex: align = cc
> | test           | test |
> | test of longer | test |
>
> #+end_src
>
> If there's reason for this, I can change my habits. I guess from
> various tidy programming habits, I'm just in the practice of
> separating equal signs with surrounding white space for easier
> readability. For what it's worth, these two behave identically:
>
> #+attr_latex: width=5cm
> #+attr_latex: width = 5cm
>
> I'm not sure why the tabular align argument is behaving differently.

This syntax is wrong anyway. It should be:

  #+attr_latex: :width "5cm"

or 

  #+attr_latex: :width 5cm

The same goes for :align. Also, for simple alignment strings, you can
provide align cookies within the table.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou