Re: [Orgmode] Re: latex export and booktabs tables

[Eric Schulte]

One way to deal with this without adding even more complexity to the
core of org-mode could be through the use of "Library of Babel"
functions.

The attached org-mode file provides a function for exporting to the
longtable environment with some example usage.  If this looks generally
useful it (and maybe similar functions) could be added to the library of
babel distributed w/Org-mode.

What do you think? -- Eric

longtable.org
Description: Binary data

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Erik,
>
> Erik Butz wrote:
>> I found a very old thread on the list about using the booktabs package to
>> have nicer tables in latex export.
>>
>> I found that, making the changes below I can use the booktab package to
>> export tables, and using standard tables only, this seems to work fine.
>>
>> Can anyone advice on whether this kind of change is meaningful or if this is
>> likely to introduce difficulties elsewhere which I did not experience due to
>> the limited scope of usage? It should be said that I did not at all look
>> into longtables so far.
>
> While trying to improve this, I think one could extend it so that the table
> environment can be changed as well, from `tabular' to `array', `tabular*',
> `tabularx' or any other.
>
> There was a discussion on this, a while ago, by Francesco Pizzolante. Have a
> read at: http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18311.html.
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb