Hi all,
After spending a few hours experimenting with orgmode's exporting of
tables to LaTeX, I've got three problems to do with wide tables/figures,
which I'm hoping have smarter solutions that what I could find:
1) When one has a table of even moderate width it will "run off the
page" by default when exported to LaTeX and then pdf-published, since by
default LaTeX will not automatically fit the column sizes to the page
width, nor wrap text within cells to fit. As far as I can tell, within
orgmode, one has to do manual tweaking in the +ATTR_LaTeX line of the
table like:
#+ATTR_LaTeX: tabular width=\textwidth
align=|p{1.8cm}|p{1.5cm}|p{1.5cm}|p{1.3cm}|
...and set the column widths manually (in the example above, manually
set four column widths). Is there a better way to do this from within
orgmode?
2) Now after one does all that hand-tweaking and trial and error of
setting the LaTeX table column widths manually, the printed table may
finally fit on the page, BUT still be wider than \textwidth, and appear
off-center (it will be aligned on the left, but extend past the right
margin). I found this technique of centering the over-wide table/figure
using \makebox:
http://texblog.net/latex-archive/layout/centering-figure-table/
...which basically involves wrapping the LaTeX table code with
"\noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{%" and a closing curly brace, "}". But I
could not find a way to specify that within orgmode; if I have something
like the following it will not work, the table does not end up being
exported:
#+LaTeX: \noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{%
#+CAPTION: A wide table.
#+LABEL: tbl:wide_table
#+ATTR_LaTeX: tabular width=\textwidth
align=|p{1.8cm}|p{1.5cm}|p{1.5cm}|p{1.3cm}|p{2cm}|p{2.25cm}|p{1.7cm}|
| Technology | Stack Efficiency | System Efficiency | Lifetime [years] |
Degradation [microV/h] | Estimated High-volume manufacturing cost [2007
Euros/kW] | Target Sale Price [2007 Euros/kW] |
|------------+------------------+-------------------+------------------+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------|
| AFC | 0.43-0.5 | 0.27-0.32 | 0.5-1.1
| 10-30
| 325-675
| 120-230 |
#+LaTeX: %}
Is there any way to specify from the orgmode file that the (too wide)
exported LaTeX table should be absolutely centered in the page, so as to
avoid manual fixes per table in the tex file after exporting? Same
question applies to large images that one wants wider than \textwidth,
yet centered within the page - is there a way to do it cleanly?
3) Finally, is there a way to specify a smaller text size for tables
consistently? e.g. within the exported LaTex file, one could manually
specify \footnotesize table text like:
\begin{table}[htb]\footnotesize
But is there a way to specify that from orgmode, and avoid post-export
manual fixes in the tex file?
Thanks in advance, any and all help appreciated!
K
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