I'm struggling a bit with caption placement in LaTeX export.
In the document I'm working on now, I have:
- Image links, exported as floating figures (by inclusion of a
caption). ox-latex places the caption at the end of the figure
environment, so the caption appears below the image.
#+name: fig1
#+caption: blah blah
#+attr_latex: :width 0.75\textwidth
[[./img/blahblah.png]]
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{./img/blahblah.png}
\caption{\label{fig1}blah blah}
\end{figure}
- A figure block containing some figures. The entire block should be
captioned. ox-latex places a caption first in the figure environment,
so the caption is on top.
#+name: product1
#+caption: blah blah
#+begin_figure
#+begin_latex
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.4\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{./img/blah1.png}
\end{subfigure} \hfill \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.4\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{./img/blah2.png}
\end{subfigure}
#+end_latex
#+end_figure
\begin{figure}
\caption{\label{product1}blah blah}
\begin{subfigure}...... (omitted)
\end{figure}
I don't like the typographical inconsistency. It would be much better,
I think, if I could specify in one place that I want *all* captions
below or above the entity being captioned.
It seems somebody recognized a while ago that this was a problem, and
introduced org-latex-table-caption-above. But this applies only to
tables, not to "figure" special blocks, nor to source code blocks, and
probably some other cases that I can't think of. Well, I can customize
org-latex-listings-options to include ("captionpos" "b"), but I think
this is not quite ideal because:
a/ image captions always go at the bottom;
b/ table captions can be configured;
c/ listings captions can be configured in a different variable;
d/ many types of captions always go at the top, conflicting with a/.
Is there a plan to deal with this, other than my hacking ox-latex
locally?
hjh
