[bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

[bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

[James Harkins]

Not entirely sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems to be a regression.

According to [1], the customization variable org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to come underneath the table. I can't see any indication that the variable has been deprecated, but in my environment, it has no effect at all.

I've set the variable to nil:

org-latex-table-caption-above is a variable defined in `ox-latex.el'.
Its value is nil

However, when I use the following minimal example, the exported LaTeX code places the \caption{} before the tabular environment.

~~
#+DATE: <2013-07-23 Tue>
#+OPTIONS: texht:t
#+LATEX_CLASS: article

* Heading
#+CAPTION: A table
#+NAME: table1
#+ATTR_LaTeX: :starred t :options [htb]
#+BEGIN_table
| Row 1 | Something      |
| Row 2 | Something else |
#+END_table
~~

Actual exported LaTeX (excluding preamble, with comment added by hand):

~~
\section{Heading}
\label{sec-1}
\begin{table*}[htb]

% Why is this at the beginning?
\caption{\label{table1}A table}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Row 1 & Something\\
Row 2 & Something else\\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table*}
~~

Expected:

~~
\section{Heading}
\label{sec-1}
\begin{table*}[htb]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Row 1 & Something\\
Row 2 & Something else\\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{table1}A table}
\end{table*}
~~

Org-mode version 8.0.2 (release_8.0.2-122-gcbf956 @ /home/*****/share/org-mode.git/lisp/)

Thanks,
hjh

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/47227

Re: [bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:

> Not entirely sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems to be a regression.
>
> According to [1], the customization variable
> org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to
> come underneath the table. I can't see any indication that the
> variable has been deprecated, but in my environment, it has no effect
> at all.
>
> I've set the variable to nil:
>
> org-latex-table-caption-above is a variable defined in `ox-latex.el'.
> Its value is nil
>
> However, when I use the following minimal example, the exported LaTeX code places the \caption{} before the tabular environment.
>
> ~~
> #+DATE: <2013-07-23 Tue>
> #+OPTIONS: texht:t
> #+LATEX_CLASS: article
>
> * Heading
> #+CAPTION: A table
> #+NAME: table1
> #+ATTR_LaTeX: :starred t :options [htb]
> #+BEGIN_table
> | Row 1 | Something      |
> | Row 2 | Something else |
> #+END_table

This variable, as its name suggests, only applies to tables. You're
captioning a special block (begin_table) here. Therefore it is ignored.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: [bug?] org-latex-table-caption-above has no effect

[James Harkins]

At Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:44:04 +0200,
Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > According to [1], the customization variable
> > org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to
> > come underneath the table. I can't see any indication that the
> > variable has been deprecated, but in my environment, it has no effect
> > at all.
> >
> This variable, as its name suggests, only applies to tables. You're
> captioning a special block (begin_table) here. Therefore it is ignored.

Okay, I can understand that. (Actually, I kind of guessed this sometime after getting up from the computer).

It took a minute to play with it, and another visit to the org manual, but this seems to do what I wanted. Posting for the benefit of future archive searches. (The "multicolumn" is necessary for this article, where the conference specifies a two-column format. Maybe optional in other settings.)

#+CAPTION: A table
#+NAME: table1
#+ATTR_LaTeX: :float multicolumn
| Row 1 | Something      |
| Row 2 | Something else |

Thanks --
hjh