Re: [ox-latex, bug?] :caption forces environment

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> This is a feature. A caption implies, at least, a "table" environment.

Except when it doesn't¹ ...  And in this case I told Org that it doesn't by
specifying :environment nil.  :environment should be stronger
than :caption.

>> The real usecase is that I want to use \captionof{table}{my caption}.
>
> This feature existed before support for "captionof". Of course, it is
> now possible to make use of this macro and alter `org-latex--org-table'
> accordingly.

There no explicit interface for \captonof, and reading the manual of
capt-of, I don't want to, as the author says care should be taken in
documents where floats are also used.

—Rasmus


Footnotes: 
¹   I need to put the table inside an minipage, and they don't hold floats.

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