Re: Latex export of tables

[Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag@biostat.ku.dk>]

Hi Vikas

I am not sure I understand the problem correctly, but how about this?

Here is a table produced by a R-src block
with some descriptive text in a minipage:

-----------------------snip----------------------------------------------

#+BEGIN_SRC R  :results output latex  :exports results  :session *R* :cache yes 
tab <- matrix(1:12,nrow=4)
cat("\n\\begin{table}\n")
cat("\\begin{minipage}{\\textwidth}\n")
cat("\\tiny{ Note: some descriptive text}\n")
cat("\\end{minipage}\n")
nix <- apply(tab,1,function(x)cat(paste(x,collab="&"),"\\\\\n"))
cat("\\end{table}\n")
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS[<2013-04-16 15:11:58> 964853177d477abc1cba212a72dde1f7cf3251c0]:
#+BEGIN_LaTeX

\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\tiny{ Note: some descriptive text}
\end{minipage}
1 & 5 & 9 & \\
2 & 6 & 10 & \\
3 & 7 & 11 & \\
4 & 8 & 12 & \\
\end{table}
#+END_LaTeX

-----------------------snap----------------------------------------------

cheers Thomas

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

>> > I am using org-mode version 8.0-pre (release_8.0-pre-247-gbc3ccd @
>> > /home/vikas/lisp/org-mode/lisp/).
>> > 
>> > I have a table generated by a source block in a document that I
>> > would like to export to latex. In the exported tex file, I would
>> > like org to insert a line like the following between \end(tabular}
>> > and \end{table}
>> > 
>> > \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} \tiny Note: Some descriptive text
>> > here. \end{minipage}
>>  I do not think this is possible.  You have to realise that Org does
>> not aim to support everything you can do with a backend natively.
>> One of the primary reasons for that is the backend agnostic
>> abstraction provided by Org.
>
> I have seen some way of doing things like this. See section 13.3 at
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html
>
> I can't get it to work though. Will keep trying.
>
>>  When in need of specific needs like this, I resort to writing LaTeX
>> natively.
>
> I guess one thing about org-mode is that it is addictive. Afterall, if
> it is something to do with manipulating text, it ought to be possible
> :)
>
> There is also a reason for not doing it natively in latex even if the
> org-mode solution is somewhat round-about. I am writing a research
> paper using orgmode, with embedded R source blocks in it. I do not
> mind embedding some latex source block into it but I would not like to
> edit an exported latex file. After all, in the end, the objective is
> to be able to have an org file which produces a full paper when
> exported.
>
> Vikas
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