Placement=[H] not exporting to LaTeX anymore?

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just to be sure I created an blank org file with only this:
> >
> > * test
> >
> > #+CAPTION: test table
> > #+ATTR_LaTeX: placement=[H]
> > | 1    | 2    | 3    | 4    |
> > |------+------+------+------|
> > | test | test | test | test |
> > | test | test | test | test |
> >
> > It gets exported to this:
> >
> > \begin{table}[htb]
> > \caption{test table}
> > \begin{center}
> > \begin{tabular}{llll}
> >
> > Did something change between 6.35 and 7.01 or in the LaTeX table options?
> >
>
> I think that placement works fine for figures, but not for tables. In
> fact, I cannot find the code that's supposed to do this for tables: I
> suspect that it never existed. So unless I'm mistaken, it seems that
> tables never got the placement treatment that figures did.
>

Try the following patch (might be wrong in detail, and its scope might
be too limited, but I hope it's not too far off: at least it seems to
work on your simple table.) It may also be white-space damaged, so some
reformatting may be needed after applying it.

Nick

>From 4c8cdde9f3d80edc882efe83562a934fd9a6a8c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:54:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Process latex placement attribute for tables.

Figures got placement attributes previously, but tables never did.

lisp/org-latex.el

@@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
              (org-table-last-column-widths (copy-sequence
                                             org-table-last-column-widths))
              fnum fields line lines olines gr colgropen line-fmt align
-             caption shortn label attr floatp longtblp)
+             caption shortn label attr floatp placement longtblp)
         (if org-export-latex-tables-verbatim
             (let* ((tbl (concat "\\begin{verbatim}\n" raw-table
                                 "\\end{verbatim}\n")))
@@ -1617,7 +1617,12 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
                   align (and attr (stringp attr)
                              (string-match "\\<align=\\([^ \t\n\r]+\\)" attr)
                              (match-string 1 attr))
-                  floatp (or caption label))
+                  floatp (or caption label)
+		  placement     (if (and attr 
+					 (stringp attr)
+					 (string-match "[ \t]*\\<placement=\\(\\S-+\\)" attr))
+				    (match-string 1 attr)
+				  "[htb]"))
 	    (setq caption (and caption (org-export-latex-fontify-headline caption)))
             (setq lines (org-split-string raw-table "\n"))
             (apply 'delete-region (list beg end))
@@ -1672,7 +1677,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
                        (concat
                         (if longtblp
                             (concat "\\begin{longtable}{" align "}\n")
-                          (if floatp "\\begin{table}[htb]\n"))
+                          (if floatp (format "\\begin{table}%s\n" placement)))
                         (if floatp
                             (format
                              "\\caption%s{%s}"