[PATCH] ox-latex.el: Wrap table into figure environment

[PATCH] ox-latex.el: Wrap table into figure environment

[Xavier Garrido]

Hi Orgers,

Since I did not find another way to do it, I would like to submit the 
following patch

diff --git a/lisp/ox-latex.el b/lisp/ox-latex.el
index 09928a4..3da2dd5 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-latex.el
@@ -2333,6 +2333,7 @@ This function assumes TABLE has `org' as its 
`:type' property and
  			 ((and (not float) (plist-member attr :float)) nil)
  			 ((string= float "sidewaystable") "sidewaystable")
  			 ((string= float "multicolumn") "table*")
+			 ((string= float "figure") "figure")
  			 ((or float (org-element-property :caption table))
  			  "table")))))
  	 ;; Extract others display options.

Maybe it is quite "counterintuitive" to use =figure= environment inside 
=table= env. but I heavily use tabular to put figures side-by-side or on 
a grid array (I guess I am not the only one). There may be a better way 
to achieve that...

Cheers,
Xavier

Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: Wrap table into figure environment

[Rasmus]

Xavier,

> Since I did not find another way to do it, I would like to submit the
> following patch

Great!

> diff --git a/lisp/ox-latex.el b/lisp/ox-latex.el
> index 09928a4..3da2dd5 100644
> --- a/lisp/ox-latex.el
> +++ b/lisp/ox-latex.el
> @@ -2333,6 +2333,7 @@ This function assumes TABLE has `org' as its
> :type' property and
>  			 ((and (not float) (plist-member attr :float)) nil)
>  			 ((string= float "sidewaystable") "sidewaystable")
>  			 ((string= float "multicolumn") "table*")
> +			 ((string= float "figure") "figure")
>  			 ((or float (org-element-property :caption table))
>  			  "table")))))
>  	 ;; Extract others display options.



> Maybe it is quite "counterintuitive" to use =figure= environment
> inside =table= env. but I heavily use tabular to put figures
> side-by-side or on a grid array (I guess I am not the only one). There
> may be a better way to achieve that...

Yeah, you should do it with the package subfigure or subcaption.  I
use the latter mostly, recently.  Do /not/ use the package subfig!  Is
there support for this now?  I have no idea.  I've usually just added
it manually, with #+LATEX-lines.  But I agree that support might be
nice.  It could probably be handled how matrices are handled
(i.e. with no newline between the lines tables and #+LATEX_ATTR lines
they are put into the same math environment).  

I don't know how often people requires side-by-side floats, but for me
it would certainly be of interest.  I lack time experimenting with it
right now, though.

–Rasmus

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May contains speling mistake