Just found this helping someone use the LaTeX exporter.

Was tempted to mark it as TINYCHANGE...
Best, /PA
-- 
Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden,
Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden
Georg Kreisler

"Sagen's Paradeiser" (ORF: Als Radiohören gefährlich war) => write BE!
Year 2 of the New Koprocracy
From 0a9a683ba922e6b1502e09b3ad495951adc66874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Pedro A. Aranda" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 17:42:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] org-manual: Add remark to :booktabs

* doc/org-manual.org: You only need to add the booktabs package when
  your document class doesn't load it.
---
 doc/org-manual.org | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index dfc20b053..b76381168 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -14562,11 +14562,13 @@ include:
   #+vindex: org-latex-tables-booktabs
   #+vindex: org-latex-tables-centered
   All three commands are toggles.  =:booktabs= brings in modern
-  typesetting enhancements to regular tables.  The booktabs package
-  has to be loaded through ~org-latex-packages-alist~.  =:center= is
-  for centering the table.  =:rmlines= removes all but the very first
-  horizontal line made of ASCII characters from "table.el" tables
-  only.
+  typesetting enhancements to regular tables.  The =booktabs= package
+  needs to be loaded through ~org-latex-packages-alist~, unless it is
+  already included by your document class[fn:: For example,
+  [[https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-latex][the
+  ACM article template]].].  =:center= is for centering the table.
+  =:rmlines= removes all but the very first horizontal line made of
+  ASCII characters from "table.el" tables only.
 
 - =:math-prefix=, =:math-suffix=, =:math-arguments= ::
 
-- 
2.43.0

Reply via email to