On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cantab.net> wrote:

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes, a long time ago:

> On May 19, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
>
>> To produce documents in something approaching my organization's house
>> style, I need to be able to style the headers of tables. It's nice that
>> orgtbl has the functionality for this, but the call to orgtbl-to-latex
>> has a hard-coded list of parameters with no possibility for extension.
>> With the attached patch, I am able to put e.g.
>>
>> #+BIND: org-export-latex-tables-orgtbl-extra-parameters (:hfmt "\\multicolumn{1}{c}{\\bf\\color{white}\\cellcolor{blue}%s}")
>>
>> in the header of my document, and tables throughout the document all
>> pick up this style.
>>
>> I daresay that this is not the optimal way of doing things; while this
>> solves my immediate problem there is likely to be a more general way of
>> doing things.
>
> would it be better to be able to set these parameters on a per-table basis with ATTR_LaTeX ?
> Would you like to try to prepare a patch to this effect?

Find attached a patch to this effect. It is the combination of two
changes which I consider tiny: one is the support for hfmt itself as an
ATTR_LaTeX attribute; the other is the consolidation of the
word-matching on the attributes into local macros, which I needed
because my use case (as above) includes the string "multicolumn", which
was otherwise confusing the attribute parser into thinking that I needed
a table* LaTeX environment.

Please let me know if this suits better.

Christophe

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