Re: orgmod: R and threeparttable

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

> I do not know if I am expressing myself clearly. The table is being
> generated by an R source code. We need a way of adding notes to such a
> table.

There are two different problems:

  1. How to generate "threeparttable" environment using Org syntax and
     `latex' export back-end.
  2. How to generate Org syntax specified above from a source block.

At the moment, my only concern is point 1.

> Unfortunately, on such matters, one has to work with the conventions in
> different disciplines. At least in social sciences, it is usually expected
> that notes are placed below Tables and Figures, and not as part of
> footnotes, which are reserved for notes to text. At least my collaborators
> and readers frown when I put table sources and notes in the footnotes.

Understood. You didn't answer to my suggestion to use special blocks,
though.

> I do understand that there are innumerable requests for adding this feature
> and that. In particular, it has been said many times before that we cannot
> support every possible latex table environment.  But I still think that, in
> this area of application of org mode, capability to neatly add a footer to
> tables and graphics, including when they are made by a source block, would
> be very useful.

If my suggestion to use special blocks doesn't apply, you still need to
properly define your problem. In particular:

- How table notes are generated? Do you want to hijack footnotes in
  table to produce them?
- Should note numbers be configurable?
- Should "threeparttable" be generated only when table contains at least
  a note and some global option is set to a non-nil value? Or should
  a user explicitly write that he requires such an environment for the
  current table?
- Can another environment than "tabular" be used within
  "threeparttable"?
- Is the "table" environment around mandatory?
- ...


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou