Re: [Orgmode] Placement=[H] not exporting to LaTeX anymore?

[Nick Dokos]

John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> I had a problem with floating tables/figures a ways back, found here: 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg25566.html
> 
> The solution, which was simply inserting #+ATTR_LATEX: placement=[H], worked 
> perfectly.
> 
> I just ran into it again, however. my org file has the following order in a 
> section:
> 
> * section
> text before table 1
> table 1 (featuring both #+CAPTION and #+ATTR_LATEX: placement [H])
> text before table 2
> table 2 (featuring both #+CAPTION and #+ATTR_LATEX: placement [H])
> 

[Just a note for the unwary: the syntax above is not quite correct -
John gives the correct syntax below in his example.]

> But it's being exported to pdf like so:
> 
> text before table 1
> text before table 2
> table 1
> table 2
> 
> The exported .tex has this for table 1:
> \begin{table}[htb]
> \caption{table 1 caption}
> \begin{center}
> 
> If I manually change the \begin{table}[htb] line to \begin{table}[H], things 
> work exactly as I want. Somehow the [H] option just isn't making it
> through...
> 
> 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.

Nick