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<emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes:

I have implemented tabbing (http://www.ctex.org/documents/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-58.html) support for ox-latex. By setting #+ATTR_LATEX: :mode tabbingthe exporter will use the tabbing environment. 

The benefits of using tabbing over tabular:

- Can span multiple pages (also possible with long tables).

- Cell width is fixed and does not depend on the content.

- Cells can overflow. 

Looks useful. Marking your message as a patch to be tracked at

updated.orgmode.org

Some comments are below.

TINYCHANGE

Note that your patch >15 LOC and cannot be applied without copyright

assignment. See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#copyright

-;; `org-latex--org-table' or `org-latex--math-table' functions,

+;; `org-latex--org-table' or `org-latex--math-table' or `org-latex--org-tabbing' functions,

We generally try to keep all the text in source files narrower than 70

characters (default value of fill-column). You can use fill-region to

make Emacs autofill the comment lines.

+(defun org-latex--align-string-tabbing (table info &optional math?)

It looks like math? argument is unused. Is it intentional?

+ "Return an appropriate LaTeX alignment string, for the

+latex tabbing environment.

+TABLE is the considered table. INFO is a plist used as

+a communication channel. When optional argument MATH? is

+non-nil, TABLE is meant to be a matrix, where all cells are

+centered."

+ (or (org-export-read-attribute :attr_latex table :align)

+ (let ((align "")

+ (count 0)

+ (separator ""))

+ (progn

You do not need an extra progn inside let.

+(defun org-table--org-tabbing (table contenst info)

^contents

+ "Return appropriate LaTeX code for an Org table, using the

+latex tabbing syntax.

+TABLE is the table type element to transcode. CONTENTS is its

+contents, as a string. INFO is a plist used as a communication

+channel.

+This function assumes TABLE has `org' as its `:type' property and

+`tabbing' as its `:mode' attribute."

+ (let ((output (format "\\begin{%s}\n%s\n%s\\end{%s}"

+ "tabbing"

+ (org-latex--align-string-tabbing table info )

+ contenst

^contents

Best,

Ihor