From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Matt Huszagh <huszaghmatt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: basic org questions
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:44:21 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8m617ze.fsf@tsdye.online> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d02m4qnj.fsf@ebih.ebihd>
This is the unix design: let each tool do what it does well.
LaTeX decides how to format and align tables, and it does this
very well. Nevertheless, it does this at the level of the
document class, which decides how tables are formatted and aligned
for the whole document. The idea of having a user decide table
formatting and alignment on a case by case basis is completely
foreign to the design of LaTeX. It is also completely foreign to
the best practices of book design.
There are many pieces of software that will allow the user to the
violate best typesetting practices easily. LaTeX is not one of
them.
hth,
Tom
Emanuel Berg writes:
> Matt Huszagh wrote:
>
>>> Yes, after export to PDF, they are centered.
>>> they = the whole table items.
>>
>> I think this link
>> (https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-LaTeX-export.html)
>> is the relevant part of the documentation.
>
> Yeah, but in LaTeX being left aligned is not some
> property of the table, everything is left-aligned,
> and if you want it otherwise, you put between
> \begin{center} and \end{center} ...
--
Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye
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2020-09-15 15:29 basic org questions Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2020-09-15 17:08 ` Matt Huszagh
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2020-09-15 21:01 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 21:10 ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-15 21:44 ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-15 22:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2020-09-15 22:37 ` Matt Huszagh
2020-09-16 1:56 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2020-09-17 0:51 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
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2020-09-16 7:44 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
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2020-09-17 9:59 ` Stefan Nobis
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2020-09-17 5:08 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 19:23 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2020-09-16 0:04 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16 1:58 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 3:46 ` TEC
2020-09-16 4:11 ` Emanuel Berg
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2020-09-17 0:46 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 6:56 ` tomas
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2020-09-16 13:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-16 16:32 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-16 22:51 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 22:53 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17 9:48 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-17 13:37 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 4:31 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16 6:21 ` TEC
2020-09-16 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 22:28 ` Tim Cross
2020-09-16 22:31 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 6:54 ` tomas
2020-09-17 0:52 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 7:37 ` Stefan Nobis
2020-09-16 23:08 ` Samuel Wales
2020-09-17 0:16 ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
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