emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: basic org questions
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:15:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d02ms0vv.fsf@nobis-it.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d02miiwh.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (Emanuel Berg via's message of "Wed,  16 Sep 2020 03:56:30 +0200")

Hi.

Details about Org tables are to be found in the manual at different
places (maybe not optimal, but that's the current structure). First of
all, aspects of tables inside Emacs and Org are discussed here:

   https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html#Tables

But everything about exporting (generating PDF via LaTeX, HTML, etc.)
is discussed in the export sections. So details about exporting Org
tables to LaTeX can be found here:

   https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-LaTeX-export.html#Tables-in-LaTeX-export

Here you can find the relevant option ":center". For example the
following Org table will be exported to LaTeX without centering and
using the booktabs package to nicely format the table:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

#+attr_latex: :center nil :booktabs t
| My | Columns |
|----+---------|
|  1 |       2 |
|  3 |       4 |

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Generally, you have the option to just let Org handle all of the LaTeX
details. In this case, in most cases you do not even need to know
anything about LaTeX - that's what some people are excited about. On
the other hand, in this case you get what Org thinks is good enough
for you. If you want to fine-tune every detail about the resulting
PDF, you have no choice but to know LaTeX and use the options and
hooks to sprinkle your fine-tuning in the document.

BTW: I'm a long-time LaTeX user and a big fan of LaTeX. If I want to
typeset a document and tune any detail of it, in most cases I use
LaTeX and not try to modify Org to generate my hand-optimized LaTeX
code. On the other hand nowadays in many cases I just do not need to
control every little aspect of my final documents or the LaTeX code.
In these cases Org helps a lot to speed up creating simple, small
documents. I customized some aspects once globally and have to type
less (but still know LaTeX and sprinkle a few fine-tunings here and
there). So sometimes I view Org as a kind of very flexible LaTeX
template engine. :)

-- 
Until the next mail...,
Stefan.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 15:29 basic org questions Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 15:44 ` Russell Adams
2020-09-15 19:38   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17 14:27     ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-17 14:47       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 15:49 ` tomas
2020-09-15 19:50   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 17:08 ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-15 19:52   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 20:49     ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-15 21:01       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 21:10         ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-15 21:44         ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-15 22:32           ` Emanuel Berg
2020-09-15 22:37             ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-16  1:56               ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  6:15                 ` Stefan Nobis [this message]
2020-09-17  0:51                   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17  9:55                     ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-17 13:42                       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  7:44             ` Thomas S. Dye
2020-09-17  0:57               ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17  1:14                 ` Thomas S. Dye
2020-09-17  9:59               ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-17 13:43                 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17  4:39         ` Nick Dokos
2020-09-17  5:08           ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 19:23 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2020-09-16  0:04 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16  1:58   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  3:46     ` TEC
2020-09-16  4:11       ` Emanuel Berg
2020-09-16  4:51         ` TEC
2020-09-17  0:46           ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  6:56         ` tomas
2020-09-16  4:13       ` Emanuel Berg
2020-09-16 13:48         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-16 16:32           ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-16 22:51             ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 22:53             ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17  9:48               ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-17 13:37                 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  4:31     ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16  6:21       ` TEC
2020-09-16 22:11       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 22:28         ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16 22:31           ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  6:54     ` tomas
2020-09-17  0:52       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16  7:37     ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-16 23:08       ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-17  0:16         ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17  9:25         ` Stefan Nobis

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m1d02ms0vv.fsf@nobis-it.eu \
    --to=stefan-ml@snobis.de \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).