Re: [PATCH] Add margin option to float for figure in ox-latex.el

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Kyle,

Barring a guru's user-end customization, Rasmus's figure 
:environment attribute idea is a good one.

The LaTeX float package has a facility to create and name 
environments that are handled like figures.  A figure :environment 
attribute in Org mode would provide a straightforward and flexible 
path to transcode them.

Thanks for looking into this.

Let me know if you have questions.

All the best,
Tom

Kyle Meyer writes:

> Thomas S. Dye writes:
>
> > This patch produces a LaTeX environment, marginfigure, that 
> > isn't
> > part of the standard.  AFAIK, marginfigure is defined in the
> > sidenotes package and separately in the tufte-latex class, 
> > neither
> > of which Org mode loads by default.  If the patch is applied, 
> > then
> > one of these packages should be added to the list of default 
> > LaTeX
> > packages so ox-latex doesn't export code it is unable to 
> > compile.
> >
> > My takeaway from the discussion surrounding ox-tufte-latex 
> > several
> > years ago is that support for non-standard LaTeX constructs 
> > should
> > not be part of Org mode core because they complicate 
> > maintenance
> > unduly.
>
> Thanks for your input and the helpful summary.  The stance in 
> the second
> paragraph sounds like a sensible one.
>
> Given the desire to use the marginfigure environment has popped 
> up a few
> times, I wonder if an ox-latex guru can suggest a user-end 
> customization
> that would enable the use of that environment.  I suppose an 
> alternative
> is Rasmus's proposal of an :environment attribute for figures 
> [*] that I
> mentioned in a sibling thread.
>
> [*]: https://yhetil.org/orgmode/address@hidden/


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