Hi Eric,
It would be great to have a more general solution. Tables are hard to
typeset, so it might take a while to come up with a good
specification. Here is what I know about the LaTeX side of things.
** LaTeX destinations for an Org-mode table
*** Environments for typesetting a table
- table placed in the output where it occurs in the input
- all of these environments can be used on their own
**** tabular
standard LaTeX environment, doesn't break across pages, no caption
**** tabularx
extended environment that can automatically calculate column
widths and wrap text within table cells, doesn't break across
pages, no caption
**** tabulary
like tabularx, but tries harder to come up with optimal column
widths
**** supertabular
extended tabular environment that breaks across pages, includes
caption
**** supertabular*
like supertabular, but for wide tables in a multicolumn page
layout
**** mpsupertabular
like supertabular, but also handles footnotes within the table
**** mpsupertabular*
like mpsupertabular, but for multicolumn page layouts
**** longtable
extended tabular environment that breaks across pages and
includes a caption, but can't be used in a multicolumn page
layout
*** Environment for floating a table and adding a caption
floats a table typeset by some other environment to a place in the
output that LaTeX determines appropriate, probably not where it
occurs in the input
**** =table=, single column document
typically wraps a =tabular=, =tabularx=, or =tabulary= environment
**** =table*=, multi-column document
typically wraps a =tabular=, =tabularx=, or =tabulary= environment
*** "Typical" uses
In our report production work we regularly use seven setups:
- table or table* wrapped around tabularx or tabular
- longtable
- tabular or tabularx on their own
hth,
Tom
On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
Hi,
The attached patch allows the use of table* latex tables from within
Org
mode documents using the attr_latex lines, for example
#+CAPTION: A wide table
#+LABEL: tbl:wide
#+ATTR_LaTeX: table* align=l|lp{3cm}r|l
| ... | ... |
| ... | ... |
Should this be added, or should we put together a more general
solution
for different types of table environments? Currently only longtable
is
supported. Also, is there already a way to do this that I have
missed?
Thanks -- Eric
diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
index a261171..b7f48d3 100644
--- a/lisp/org-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-
BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
(org-table-last-column-widths (copy-sequence
org-table-last-column-
widths))
fnum fields line lines olines gr colgropen line-fmt align
- caption shortn label attr floatp placement longtblp)
+ caption shortn label attr floatp placement longtblp
tblenv)
(if org-export-latex-tables-verbatim
(let* ((tbl (concat "\\begin{verbatim}\n" raw-table
"\\end{verbatim}\n")))
@@ -1758,6 +1758,9 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-
BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
'org-label raw-table)
longtblp (and attr (stringp attr)
(string-match "\\<longtable\\>" attr))
+ tblenv (if (and attr (stringp attr)
+ (string-match (regexp-quote "table*") attr))
+ "table*" "table")
align (and attr (stringp attr)
(string-match "\\<align=\\([^ \t\n\r]+\
\)" attr)
(match-string 1 attr))
@@ -1821,7 +1824,8 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-
BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
(concat
(if longtblp
(concat "\\begin{longtable}{" align "}\n")
- (if floatp (format "\\begin{table}%s\n"
placement)))
+ (if floatp
+ (format "\\begin{%s}%s\n" tblenv placement)))
(if floatp
(format
"\\caption%s{%s} %s"
@@ -1852,7 +1856,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-
BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
"\n\\end{center}\n"
"\n"))
(if longtblp
"\\end{longtable}"
- (if floatp "\\end{table}"))))
+ (if floatp (format "\\end{%s}" tblenv)))))
"\n\n"))))))))
(defun org-export-latex-convert-table.el-table ()
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