Hello Nick,
Thank you for fixing the <10> character-width problem with the 2nd column of
the table in Org-mode problem, your solution worked. Now the table is much more
legible, within Emacs' reduced window.
Unfortunately the ultimate pdf if still giving problems. The table is too wide
and the text overflows well beyond the right page limit. Something's not
working in the preamble. Let me post the whole thing here:
#+TITLE: MS#+AUTHOR: Me#+DATE: April 2016#+STARTUP: nolatexpreview
align#+OPTIONS: toc:nil#+LATEX_CLASS: article#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS:
[a4paper,10pt]
#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment tabularx :width \textwidth :align lXl
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{esdiff}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\usepackage{amssymb}#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{siunitx}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}#+LATEX_HEADER: \frenchspacing
\allowdisplaybreaks#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{fancyhdr}#+LATEX_HEADER:
\pagestyle{fancy} % choose page-style#+LATEX_HEADER: \fancyhf{} % erase and
clean up#+LATEX_HEADER: \fancyhf[HLE,HRO]{\thepage} % H or F=Header or Footer,
LCR=Left, Centre, Right#+LATEX_HEADER: \fancyhf[HC]{Materials Science: 10
Things\dots}
PS: Say I want to see what's "hidden" in the table due to the <10> (or <20>)
character self-imposed limit, how can I do that via keyboard shortcut? Can it
be done?
--------------------------------------------------------From: Nick Dokos
<ndokos <at> gmail.com>Subject: Re: tabularx from org to latex not
recognizedNewsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
The <width> specification is on a row of its own, in the same columnthat it is
supposed to control. Try the following:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---#+ATTR_LATEX:
:environment tabularx :width \textwidth :align lXl| NAME | CHARACTERISTICS
| EXAMPLES ||--------+----------------------+-------------|| | <20>
| || Metals | metallic bonding: adjacent atoms
share electrons in a non-directional way; opaque, shiny,electrically
conductive, they reflect photons, light rays from the Qenvironment | a metal
pan |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
--Nick
