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:
>
>>> 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|
>> ...
>> This is not documented and is possibly a bug.
>
> I would say that it is the expected behavior: :float is for a float
> environment and :environment is for the environment that builds the
> table (by default tabular). According to the manual:

Oops. You are indeed right. I missed that both :float and :environment
are documented for tables.

> The difference is that with images, except in cases of somewhat more
> complex constructions where there are subfigures, there is only one
> environment, "figure" by default or any other arbitrary one. There was a
> commit a while ago, I don't remember when, that allowed :float to
> support any arbitrary string as the float environment name, in images
> and tables. In images ':float t' is figure (by default) and in tables it
> is table (also by default).

So, the difference between :environment and :float is that :float also
encapsulates \caption in addition to the actual environment (like
tabularx or includegraphics) used for transcoded exported element.

I can see how :float+:placement can be imprecise and that the existing
:environment indeed serves a different purpose. (It might be worth
clarifying this distinction in the manual - it seems arbitrary from the
first glance).

But what would be the better name then?

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