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

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> 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).

My point is that actual "t", "multicolumn", "wrap", "sideways", and
"nil" LaTeX environments are not allowed.

>> 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]]

Sure. But we might as well implement :environment support in addition to :float.

> 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.

Sure. But didn't you motivate the change with the confusing _name_
:float? IMHO, :environment is more clear.

> 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}

This is not documented and is possibly a bug.

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