Re: Are 'placement' and 'float' "obsolete terms" in inline images export

[Ihor Radchenko]

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

>> What about :wrap?
>
> I like :wrap. What's more, remembering that old thread where
> some questions about code before/after the image were discussed,
> what if the expected value of :wrap were a kind of template? This would
> allow code to be placed before and/or after (not just an environment)
> the image, always within the float environment, if it exists. Something
> like this:
>
> #+ATTR_LaTeX: :float nil :wrap 
> \begin{minipage}[b]{10pc}\small\n%s\n\end{minipage} 
> #+CAPTION: caption
> [[file:foo.png]]
> ...
> #+ATTR_LaTeX: :float minipage :placement [b]{10pc} :caption 
> \captionof{figure}{caption} 
> [[file:foo.png]]
>
> I don't know if it would be appropriate to explain in the Manual that
> doing so would not be... "correct"? I don't know if there is any term in
> programming to designate these situations which, without being bugs, are
> functionalities not consciously sought...

What about making :wrap override :float completely + obsoleting :float.
We can allow wrap to have special values like in float:

:wrap t/:wrap multicolumn/:wrap sideways

With these special values, :placement will be taken into account.

Further, we can make templates a bit more detailed.
Starting from similar to what you proposed in the above

:wrap \begin{minipage}[b]{10pc}\small\n%{body}\n\end{minipage}

to more granular control over caption, centering, comment-include,
and image-code:

%{caption} %{caption-text} %{centering} %{comment} %{comment-text}
 %{image} %{image-path}.

If the :wrap text does not contain %{...} placeholder, it will be
treated as what  :float artbirary-environment does.

We may even consider something like

#+name: latex-template
#+begin_src latex :export none
\begin{minipage}[b]{10pc}\small
%{body}
\end{minipage}
#+end_src

#+attr_latex: :wrap latex-template[]

As a bonus, :wrap may allow prepending/appending arbitrary code to
headings:

* Heading starting at a new page
:PROPERTIES:
:ATTR_LATEX: :wrap \clarpage%{default}
:END:

>>> ... However, :float can still be useful for
>>> certain combinations. For example, a minipage environment cannot include
>>> a caption (it produces an error of the type "LaTeX Error: \caption
>>> outside float").
>>
>> Do we know in advance which environments support \caption and which not?
>> I feel that we may handle this programmatically without creating an array
>> of almost-identical attributes.
>
> I like the idea, but unfortunately, apart from the known float
> environments, there are those that a user can define using the \newfloat
> command from the float package.

We might also consider :caption-template \captionof{figure}{%{caption-text}}

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