Re: Are 'placement' and 'float' "obsolete terms" in inline images exported to LaTeX?

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Ihor Radchenko writes:

> Further, we also provide :environment and :options attributes that do
> the same thing, but without special treatment of standard
> t/multicolumn/wrap/sideways/nil values in :float.

t/multicolumn/wrap/sideways/nil... and any arbitrary value (see lines 14125
and 14262 in org-manual.org).

>>> What we might do it to introduce something like a new :wrap attribute:
>>>
>>> #+attr_latex: :wrap subfigure,{\textwidht}
>
> So, it might be even better idea to extend :environment/:options
> attributes to more elements - their names make more sense and the values
> do not have a pre-defined special meanings.

Currently it is not possible in inline images (if I don't miss anything) this:

#+ATTR_LaTeX: :environment minipage :options {\textwidth}
[[file:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.jpg]]

Implementing :environment/:options here would result in redundancy with:

#+ATTR_LaTeX: :float minipage :placement {\textwidth}
[[file:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.jpg]]

which produces the same.

In tables there is more consistency because :float is a float
environment (table or any arbitrary value) and :environment is a table
environment (tabular or any arbitrary value). Here :placement :options
and :align act as what is expected of them:

#+ATTR_LaTeX: :environment foo :float var :placement [!h] :options [blah] 
:align cccc
|a|a|a|a|

===>

\begin{var}[!h]
\centering
\begin{foo}[blah]{cccc}
a & a & a & a\\[0pt]
\end{foo}
\end{var}
\end{document}

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