Hi Ihor,
Thanks for the response. I updated my patched and mailed the requested copyright form to assign@gnu.org

Kind regards,
Bob 

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Apr 4, 2022, 12:33 by yantar92@gmail.com:

> emacs--- via "General discussions about Org-mode."
> <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I have implemented tabbing (http://www.ctex.org/documents/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-58.html) support for ox-latex. By setting #+ATTR_LATEX: :mode tabbingthe exporter will use the tabbing environment. 
>>
>> The benefits of using tabbing over tabular:
>> - Can span multiple pages (also possible with long tables).
>> - Cell width is fixed and does not depend on the content.
>> - Cells can overflow. 
>>
>
> Looks useful. Marking your message as a patch to be tracked at
> updated.orgmode.org
>
> Some comments are below.
>
>> TINYCHANGE
>>
>
> Note that your patch >15 LOC and cannot be applied without copyright
> assignment. See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#copyright
>
>> -;; `org-latex--org-table' or `org-latex--math-table' functions,
>> +;; `org-latex--org-table' or `org-latex--math-table' or `org-latex--org-tabbing' functions,
>>
>
> We generally try to keep all the text in source files narrower than 70
> characters (default value of fill-column). You can use fill-region to
> make Emacs autofill the comment lines.
>
>> +(defun org-latex--align-string-tabbing (table info &optional math?)
>>
>
> It looks like math? argument is unused. Is it intentional?
>
>> +  "Return an appropriate LaTeX alignment string, for the
>> +latex tabbing environment.
>> +TABLE is the considered table.  INFO is a plist used as
>> +a communication channel.  When optional argument MATH? is
>> +non-nil, TABLE is meant to be a matrix, where all cells are
>> +centered."
>> +    (or (org-export-read-attribute :attr_latex table :align)
>> +        (let ((align "")
>> +              (count 0)
>> +              (separator ""))
>> +          (progn
>>
>
> You do not need an extra progn inside let.
>
>> +(defun org-table--org-tabbing (table contenst info)
>>
>
> ^contents
>
>> +      "Return appropriate LaTeX code for an Org table, using the
>> +latex tabbing syntax.
>> +TABLE is the table type element to transcode.  CONTENTS is its
>> +contents, as a string.  INFO is a plist used as a communication
>> +channel.
>> +This function assumes TABLE has `org' as its `:type' property and
>> +`tabbing' as its `:mode' attribute."
>> +    (let ((output (format "\\begin{%s}\n%s\n%s\\end{%s}"
>> +                          "tabbing"
>> +                          (org-latex--align-string-tabbing table info )
>> +                          contenst
>>
>
> ^contents
>
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>