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From: Niels Giesen <niels.giesen <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Patch to customize output of tables in LaTeX exporter.
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
Date: 2011-10-28 17:09:46 GMT (28 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours and 41 minutes ago)
Dear list,

Attached is a patch that allows some customization of tables in LaTeX
export.

It adds three new customizable with default values:

  org-export-latex-tables-tstart : nil
  org-export-latex-tables-hline  : "\\hline"
  org-export-latex-tables-tend   : nil

These variables allows users to use e.g. the booktabs package (use
\\toprule, \\midrule and \\bottomrule for the respective variables above
- these are options you'll find in the defcustoms too) and create more
beautiful tables in LaTeX documents.

The patch also fixes the double rule after the table head when using a
longtable environment, as this 1) is ugly and 2) caused booktabs
longtables to go quite awry.

The patch does - save for the longtable fix - bring no change to the
export of existing code as long as the defaults are not changed.


Regards,
Niels.
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