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From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:30:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hadrpml3.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F4943135-741D-43C5-BAA4-200E4F420B38@gmail.com

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11.9.2013, at 14:08, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi Eric,
>>> 
>>> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>>> A minor feature request.  Feel free to ignore!
>>>> 
>>>> Using the sidewaystable :float option for table exports to LaTeX
>>>> requires one to manually add a 
>>>> 
>>>>  #+LaTeX_header: \usepackage{rotating}
>>>> 
>>>> line to the org file.  Could this package be added automatically by the
>>>> exporter if the sidewaystable option is present?
>>> 
>>> My 2¢:
>>> 
>>> I think the policy is that the ox-latex ain't going to track packages.
>>> Aaron made some patches for this some time ago, but they weren't
>>> included.
>>> 
>>> So the question is should it be a default package?
>>> 
>>> I think not.  E.g. tabu isn't loaded.  Amsmath isn't loaded if you
>>> generate a matrix.  
>> 
>> Okay.  I can live with this!  
>> 
>> I guess it would help if the documentation indicated when additional
>> packages may be required.  I had to do an internet search to find out I
>> needed the rotating package for the sidewaystable option described in
>> the org info pages.
>
> Well, this is documented on the LaTeX pages.  Why would you duplicate this
> in Org's documentation?  And What part of the LaTeX documentation exactly?

It certainly is, but the beauty of org is that it hides some of the
nitty-gritty to write LaTeX files (and odt - even more so).

One part would be 12.7.4 - LaTeX specific attributes.

It states:

,----
| :placement 
| Float environment for the table. Possible values are
| sidewaystable, multicolumn, t and nil. When unspecified, a table with a
| caption will have a table environment. Moreover, :placement attribute
| can specify the positioning of the float.
`----

An addition like:

,----
| For some options, additional LaTeX packages need to be loaded. Please
| see LaTeX documentation for details.
`----

Would suffice, and be general enough.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
>> 
>>> Also, a kitten dies every time the length of
>>> org-latex-default-packages-alist increases!
>
> That is a terrible thought. :)
>
>> 
>> ;-)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> eric
>> 
>> -- 
>> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.1.1-7-gaecdf5
>> 
>> 
>
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-- 
Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-11 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11 11:05 [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package? Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:01 ` Rasmus
2013-09-11 12:08   ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:14     ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-11 12:25       ` Rasmus
2013-09-11 15:24         ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:30       ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2013-09-12 17:42   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-09-12 18:33     ` Rasmus
2013-09-12 19:00       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-09-13  8:49         ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-12 19:22     ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-13  8:01     ` Detlef Steuer
2013-09-15  4:49       ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-15 14:02         ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-16  8:08           ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 10:47         ` Rasmus
2013-09-16 11:26           ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-16 13:27           ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 13:38             ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 19:26             ` Rasmus
2013-09-16 20:21               ` Andreas Leha
2013-09-17  1:45               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-17  4:48                 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-17 13:24                   ` Rasmus
2013-09-18 13:18                     ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-18 22:21                       ` Rasmus
2013-09-19  2:04                         ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-19  9:11                           ` Rasmus
2013-09-19  9:28                             ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-19  9:38                           ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-19 11:05                             ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25  7:04                             ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25  7:45                               ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-25  7:50                                 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25  9:09                                 ` Rasmus
2013-09-26  8:51                                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-17 13:30                 ` Rasmus
2013-09-17  5:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-17  8:05   ` Eric S Fraga

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