Hi. Details about Org tables are to be found in the manual at different places (maybe not optimal, but that's the current structure). First of all, aspects of tables inside Emacs and Org are discussed here:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html#Tables But everything about exporting (generating PDF via LaTeX, HTML, etc.) is discussed in the export sections. So details about exporting Org tables to LaTeX can be found here: https://orgmode.org/manual/Tables-in-LaTeX-export.html#Tables-in-LaTeX-export Here you can find the relevant option ":center". For example the following Org table will be exported to LaTeX without centering and using the booktabs package to nicely format the table: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+attr_latex: :center nil :booktabs t | My | Columns | |----+---------| | 1 | 2 | | 3 | 4 | --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Generally, you have the option to just let Org handle all of the LaTeX details. In this case, in most cases you do not even need to know anything about LaTeX - that's what some people are excited about. On the other hand, in this case you get what Org thinks is good enough for you. If you want to fine-tune every detail about the resulting PDF, you have no choice but to know LaTeX and use the options and hooks to sprinkle your fine-tuning in the document. BTW: I'm a long-time LaTeX user and a big fan of LaTeX. If I want to typeset a document and tune any detail of it, in most cases I use LaTeX and not try to modify Org to generate my hand-optimized LaTeX code. On the other hand nowadays in many cases I just do not need to control every little aspect of my final documents or the LaTeX code. In these cases Org helps a lot to speed up creating simple, small documents. I customized some aspects once globally and have to type less (but still know LaTeX and sprinkle a few fine-tunings here and there). So sometimes I view Org as a kind of very flexible LaTeX template engine. :) -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
