Re: basic org questions

[Thomas S. Dye]

This is the unix design: let each tool do what it does well.

LaTeX decides how to format and align tables, and it does this 
very well.  Nevertheless, it does this at the level of the 
document class, which decides how tables are formatted and aligned 
for the whole document.  The idea of having a user decide table 
formatting and alignment on a case by case basis is completely 
foreign to the design of LaTeX.  It is also completely foreign to 
the best practices of book design.

There are many pieces of software that will allow the user to the 
violate best typesetting practices easily.  LaTeX is not one of 
them.

hth,
Tom

Emanuel Berg writes:

> Matt Huszagh wrote:
>
> > > Yes, after export to PDF, they are centered.
> > > they = the whole table items.
> >
> > I think this link
> > (https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-LaTeX-export.html)
> > is the relevant part of the documentation.
>
> Yeah, but in LaTeX being left aligned is not some
> property of the table, everything is left-aligned,
> and if you want it otherwise, you put between
> \begin{center} and \end{center} ...


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