Re: [patch] give tables their own default placement in LaTeX export

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> attached is a small patch to give tables their own default placement in
> LaTeX export.  Up to now, tables have used the default placement for
> figures but figures and tables are very different creatures so it does
> not make sense to have just one default for both.

Thanks for the patch, and sorry for the late reply.
This looks like a useful addition.

> This patch unfortunately could break documents (if people have changed
> the default for figures, expecting that change to apply to tables as
> well) but I see no way to avoid this.  So maybe not worth incorporating
> but I leave that decision to others.

There is a way to avoid this. See the comments below.

> Subject: [PATCH] lisp/ox-latex.el: give tables their own placement default
>
> * ox-latex.el (org-latex--org-table): define and use a new variable,
> org-latex-default-table-position, for setting the default placement
> option for the export of tables.

Please start sentences from capital letter and quote `symbols'.

> +*** Tables now have separate default placement option for LaTeX export
> +
> +Tables and figures now have separate settings for the default
> +placement in LaTeX export.

Please mention the new variable name.

> +(defcustom org-latex-default-table-position "htbp"

You can use

(defcustom org-latex-default-table-position nil

as the default value. Then, you can fallback for figure position in the
code when the value is nil. Need to update docstring accordingly.

> +  "Default position for LaTeX tables."
> +  :group 'org-export-latex
> +  :type 'string
> +  :version "26.1"

:version is not needed.

> +  :package-version '(Org . "9.0")

9.6

>         (or (plist-get attributes :placement)
> -           (format "[%s]" (plist-get info :latex-default-figure-position))))
> +           (format "[%s]" (plist-get info :latex-default-table-position))))

Can use

(or (plist-get info :latex-default-table-position)
    (plist-get info :latex-default-figure-position))

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