Hi,

Attached is a patch that works reasonably well to allow :float nil
"floats" to have captions in ox-latex.

The hard part is src-blocks.

At the moment we sometimes allow captions to register as figures (at least
when when using verbatim).  Instead we could go with "listing".  Of course
listing is not a known environment to LaTeX.  We can add register it with
newfloat in default-packages, or we can mention in the manual the lines
that needs to be added to org-latex-packages if desired:

     \usepackage{newfloat}
     \DeclareFloatingEnvironment{listing}

We could also unconditionally use captionof in case of verbatim output for
src blocks, even if float is required, which would allow us to kill
float.sty from default package alist.

BTW: In the current code we uses \captionof{listing}{caption} with minted.
This seems incompatible.  But I have not really used minted so I don't
know if I did the test correctly.  minted has a [H] placement through it's
listings environment, it seems, so I don't think we need captionof there.

Aaron: I think you had something to do with this at some point, hence the Cc.

WDYT? 

Rasmus

Examples:

#+caption: cap
#+attr_latex: :float nil
|a|

⇒

\begin{center}
\captionof{table}{cap}
\begin{tabular}{l}
\toprule
a\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

(Of course, this is from my normal Emacs session)


#+caption: cap
#+attr_latex: :float nil
[[file:org.png]]

⇒

\begin{center}
\includegraphics{org.png}
\captionof{figure}{cap}
\end{center}


#+caption: test
#+attr_latex: :float nil
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq org-latex-listings 'minted)
#+END_SRC

⇒ [Note, latex is happy with this...]

% \usepackage{minted}
\begin{minted}[]{common-lisp}
(setq org-latex-listings 'minted)
\end{minted}
\captionof{listing}{test}


#+caption: test
#+attr_latex: :float nil
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq org-latex-listings nil)
#+END_SRC

⇒ [Note, here I think we should use listing instead of figure]

\begin{verbatim}
(setq org-latex-listings nil)
\end{verbatim}
\captionof{figure}{test}


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