At Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:44:04 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > According to [1], the customization variable > > org-latex-table-caption-above was added to allow table captions to > > come underneath the table. I can't see any indication that the > > variable has been deprecated, but in my environment, it has no effect > > at all. > > > This variable, as its name suggests, only applies to tables. You're > captioning a special block (begin_table) here. Therefore it is ignored.
Okay, I can understand that. (Actually, I kind of guessed this sometime after getting up from the computer). It took a minute to play with it, and another visit to the org manual, but this seems to do what I wanted. Posting for the benefit of future archive searches. (The "multicolumn" is necessary for this article, where the conference specifies a two-column format. Maybe optional in other settings.) #+CAPTION: A table #+NAME: table1 #+ATTR_LaTeX: :float multicolumn | Row 1 | Something | | Row 2 | Something else | Thanks -- hjh