If there are no objections I'm going to apply this patch. It is relatively small so hopefully any new bugs should be easily identifiable.
Best -- Eric Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > The following patch make the behavior of LaTeX table exporter more > closely resemble the documented behavior (at least to my mind). I'm > hesitant to apply this patch myself as it applies to org-latex.el which > is outside of my area of expertise. > > Please apply this if it looks reasonable. > > Thanks -- Eric > > > From fc8700f52c2fbfb1ec601e3bbb32c37e38a4cfbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:18:34 -0600 > Subject: [PATCH] replacing the "multicolumn" option for latex tables > > This brings the behavior inline with the documentation. > > * lisp/org-latex.el (org-export-latex-tables): Check for the > "multiline" option and set the `floatp' option to true when > multicolumn tables are requested. > --- > lisp/org-latex.el | 5 +++-- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el > index e2c74ae..0d64f68 100644 > --- a/lisp/org-latex.el > +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el > @@ -1838,7 +1838,8 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and > STRING-AFTER." > longtblp (and attr (stringp attr) > (string-match "\\<longtable\\>" attr)) > tblenv (if (and attr (stringp attr) > - (string-match (regexp-quote "table*") attr)) > + (or (string-match (regexp-quote "table*") > attr) > + (string-match "\\<multicolumn\\>" attr))) > "table*" "table") > tabular-env > (if (and attr (stringp attr) > @@ -1851,7 +1852,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and > STRING-AFTER." > align (and attr (stringp attr) > (string-match "\\<align=\\([^ \t\n\r]+\\)" attr) > (match-string 1 attr)) > - floatp (or caption label) > + floatp (or caption label (string= "table*" tblenv)) > placement (if (and attr > (stringp attr) > (string-match "[ > \t]*\\<placement=\\(\\S-+\\)" attr)) > -- > 1.7.4.1 -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
