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[Orgmode] Re: Latex export error in tables
From: |
Flávio de Souza |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] Re: Latex export error in tables |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:39:46 -0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Manish <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Flávio wrote:
> [snip (44 lines)]
>>
>> This is not a utf-8 encoding problem. When I generate a tex file with org, I
>> change manually from \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to
>> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}. All characters are recognized without any
>> problems. I tested it both in Linux and Windows XP. This works fine.
>>
>> Now I will try to narrow down my problem and see if we can find a solution. I
>> really believe the problem is in tex code generated by org. I will show you
>> the
>> reason I am pointing the problem to org.
>>
>> If I have an org table in my file like this one:
>>
>> #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :vlines t :id "09.0001-ESCH" :skip-empty-rows t
>> | | ITEM | Quotation | Sold | Required |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | * Escopo Horas | 230 | 1640 | |
>> | | ** Gerência | 10 | | |
>> | | ** Definição | 50 | | |
>> | | ** Configuração | 100 | | |
>> | | ** Comis. & Start up | 50 | | |
>> | | ** Documentação | 20 | | |
>> | / | <> | <> | <> | <> |
>> #+END:
>>
>> Then I select the option to generate latex "[L] export as LaTeX to temporary
>> buffer" ( I only want the tex code, I am not going to do any further
>> transformation on it ). The raw code for that specific part of the file is:
>>
>>
>> \begin{tabular}{l|l|r|l}
>> ITEM & Quotation & Sold & Required \\
>> \hline
>> * Escopo Horas & 230 & 1640 & \\
>> \textbf{* Gerência & 10 & & \\
>> *} Definição & 50 & & \\
>> \textbf{* Configuração & 100 & & \\
>> *} Comis. & Start up & 50 & & \\
>> ** Documentação & 20 & & \\
>> \end{tabular}
>>
>> The problems I can point to in this code are:
>>
>> 1) The code "\textbf{* Gerência" is wrong, it should be "\textbf{*} Gerência"
>> 2) The code "*} Definição" is wrong, it should be "\textbf{*} Definição". The
>> same problem happens in other rows as you can see above. So all these open
>> command lines will be the source for the errors.
>> 3) One minor problem is that the character "&" at "Comis. & Start up" should
>> be
>> genrated as "\&". However this is a minor problem and I just dont use this
>> character anymore.
>>
>> Now I will describe my solution (workaround) I found today for it. Firstly I
>> changed my org table configuration to:
>>
>> #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 2 :vlines t :id "09.0001-ESCH" :skip-empty-rows t
>> | | ITEM | Quotation | Sold | Required |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | * Escopo Horas | 230 | 1640 | |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | ** Gerência | 10 | | |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | ** Definição | 50 | | |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | ** Configuração | 100 | | |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | ** Comis.and Startup | 50 | | |
>> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
>> | | ** Documentação | 20 | | |
>> | / | <> | <> | <> | <> |
>> #+END:
>>
>> With the option :hlines 2 my table has horizontal lines in every row. When I
>> generate tex, it will look like this:
>>
>> \begin{tabular}{l|l|r|l}
>> ITEM & Quotation & Sold & Required \\
>> \hline
>> * Escopo Horas & 230 & 1640 & \\
>> \hline
>> ** Gerência & 10 & & \\
>> \hline
>> ** Definição & 50 & & \\
>> \hline
>> ** Configuração & 100 & & \\
>> \hline
>> ** Comis.and Start up & 50 & & \\
>> \hline
>> ** Documentação & 20 & & \\
>> \end{tabular}
>>
>> The above code is a perfect tex table and I get no errors, because now the
>> code
>> is generated with \hline. I needed to "deviate" org tex generation code from
>> using \textbuf.... :)
>
> That was quite detailed analysis so I tried to replicate it.
>
> This is the input file (I only added a first blank line and a dummy heading):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #
> * test table
> #+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :vlines t :id "09.0001-ESCH" :skip-empty-rows t
> | | ITEM | Quotation | Sold | Required |
> |---+----------------------+-----------+------+----------|
> | | * Escopo Horas | 230 | 1640 | |
> | | ** Ger�ncia | 10 | | |
> | | ** Defini��o | 50 | | |
> | | ** Configura��o | 100 | | |
> | | ** Comis. & Start up | 50 | | |
> | | ** Documenta��o | 20 | | |
> | / | <> | <> | <> | <> |
> #+END:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I did a C-c C-e L to export to tex and following is what I got:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> % Created 2009-02-09 Mon 19:35
> \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
>
>
> \title{flavio}
> \author{Manish Sharma}
> \date{09 February 2009}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \maketitle
>
> \section{test table}
> \label{sec-1}
>
>
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{l|l|r|l}
> ITEM & Quotation & Sold & Required \\
> \hline
> * Escopo Horas & 230 & 1640 & \\
> ** Ger�ncia & 10 & & \\
> ** Defini��o & 50 & & \\
> ** Configura��o & 100 & & \\
> ** Comis. \& Start up & 50 & & \\
> ** Documenta��o & 20 & & \\
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
>
>
>
> \end{document}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> It does not exhibit any of the three issues you listed. I have no clue why it
> works for me so I checked my latex export related settings but there's nothing
> interesting there. Now I know none of this helps you but thought I would add
> a data point. May be someone else can try too?
>
> --
> Manish
>
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Thanks for your effort. Maybe it really has to do with my enconding
system.
Since I found a workaround, I will stop searching for a solution now.
--
Flávio de Souza
address@hidden