sorry for this post. I should have read the mailing list more carefully. looks as if a) the issue is already under discussion and b) that the manual is for latest release whereas I had problems with the pre-release.
Thomas Alexander Gerds <t...@biostat.ku.dk> writes: > the following page from the official manual > > http://orgmode.org/manual/Images-in-LaTeX-export.html > > says > > #+ATTR_LaTeX: width=5cm,angle=90 > > however, the new exporter does not recognize this syntax. instead the > following works: > > #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width 5cm > > I was learning about this by guessing around for some time ... it is > surprisingly hard to edebug the export process (any hints?). > > next, the following educated guess does not work: > > #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width 5cm :angle 90 > > instead one needs to say > > #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width 5cm,angle 90 > > I am not sure whether these changes are very intuitive, or more > intuitive than the old style. but, the changes interfere with the aim > to have reproducible documents. > > now, I am ready to convert all my old documents to the new > syntax. Would someone share a (elisp/sed/perl/other) macro that > reliably goes through old org-mode files and converts the part of the > syntax which is not compatible with the new exporter? [it is easy to > convert (width=) to (:width) in lines that start with #+ATTR_LaTeX: > but this is not the full story. > > Such a macro could then be applied to update the manual ... > > cheers Thomas -- Thomas A. Gerds -- Assoc. Prof. Department of Biostatistics University of Copenhagen, Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark Office: CSS-15.2.07 (Gamle Kommunehospital) tel: 35327914 (sec: 35327901)