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Subject: Re: resize table in latex
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 08:43:07AM +0000, Zhihao Ding wrote:
> Thanks very much for your reply. The proposed method 
> in this reply won’t work. It needs to be in the following
> structure where this line 
> 
>  “\scriptsize{\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{“
> 
> is after “\begin{table}[htb]” and immediately before 
> “\begin{tabular}{rr}”. 

Why is that?  Is it because table is a float?

You could try repurposing the :caption attribute.  See: 

  (info "(org) LaTeX specific attributes")

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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