Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just to be sure I created an blank org file with only this:
> >
> > * test
> >
> > #+CAPTION: test table
> > #+ATTR_LaTeX: placement=[H]
> > | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
> > |------+------+------+------|
> > | test | test | test | test |
> > | test | test | test | test |
> >
> > It gets exported to this:
> >
> > \begin{table}[htb]
> > \caption{test table}
> > \begin{center}
> > \begin{tabular}{llll}
> >
> > Did something change between 6.35 and 7.01 or in the LaTeX table options?
> >
>
> I think that placement works fine for figures, but not for tables. In
> fact, I cannot find the code that's supposed to do this for tables: I
> suspect that it never existed. So unless I'm mistaken, it seems that
> tables never got the placement treatment that figures did.
>
Try the following patch (might be wrong in detail, and its scope might
be too limited, but I hope it's not too far off: at least it seems to
work on your simple table.) It may also be white-space damaged, so some
reformatting may be needed after applying it.
Nick
>From 4c8cdde9f3d80edc882efe83562a934fd9a6a8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:54:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Process latex placement attribute for tables.
Figures got placement attributes previously, but tables never did.
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