This works.  My table was quite wide: about two landscape sheets wide, so I
was looking for a solution for width.  Technically, I guess it's only a long
table, if it's printed sideways?  Don't know if that makes sense.

Thank you for this.  Good example.

Alan

2011/6/15 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>

> Hi Nick and Alan,
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:00:11 -0400
> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>
> > suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > (I would
> > > > like to use the \footnotesize feature also).
> > > ...
> > >
> > > For the use of \footnotesize, you can look at the following Worg
> > > page: <http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-1_6_1>
> >
> > Actually, I don't think the trick works with longtable - at least, I
> > can't see any difference (checking the tex file shows no evidence of
> > the attributes.) And fwiw, the other trick of resetting the size
> > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/42196/focus=42785)
> > doesn't seem to work either - the commands are probably very
> > different. In fact, trying to place a \footnotesize or \scriptsize
> > into the tex file was a bust - I tried a few places and either got
> > errors or no changes in size. So I don't know how to change the size
> > in LaTeX, let alone in org.
> >
>
> It works for me very smoothly. I have attached an example org file and
> the exported tex and pdf files.
>
> > Nick
> >
>
>
>
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> Suvayu
>
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