Re: [PATCH] Add margin option to float for figure in ox-latex.el

[Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>]

Thomas S. Dye writes:

> This patch produces a LaTeX environment, marginfigure, that isn't 
> part of the standard.  AFAIK, marginfigure is defined in the 
> sidenotes package and separately in the tufte-latex class, neither 
> of which Org mode loads by default.  If the patch is applied, then 
> one of these packages should be added to the list of default LaTeX 
> packages so ox-latex doesn't export code it is unable to compile.
>
> My takeaway from the discussion surrounding ox-tufte-latex several 
> years ago is that support for non-standard LaTeX constructs should 
> not be part of Org mode core because they complicate maintenance 
> unduly.

Thanks for your input and the helpful summary.  The stance in the second
paragraph sounds like a sensible one.

Given the desire to use the marginfigure environment has popped up a few
times, I wonder if an ox-latex guru can suggest a user-end customization
that would enable the use of that environment.  I suppose an alternative
is Rasmus's proposal of an :environment attribute for figures [*] that I
mentioned in a sibling thread.

[*]: https://yhetil.org/orgmode/878u31ycc5.fsf@gmx.us/