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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: float control in org
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:07:03 +0200
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Zhihao Ding <zhihao.ding@imm.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi there, 
>
> Could I ask for some advice on using the latex float 
> package in org mode? I’d like to have some control on 
> the positions of the figures, tables, code blocks etc. 
> Currently I am doing it using latex entirely, just for 
> my code blocks, as below 
>
>      #+BEGIN_LaTeX
>      \floatstyle{ruled}
>      \newfloat{Program}{tbp}{lop}[section]
>      \begin{Program}
>      \begin{verbatim}
>    	./somescripts.sh someargs
>      \end{verbatim}
>      \caption{my caption}
>      \label{mylabel}
>      \end{Program}
>      #+END_LaTeX
>
>  There must be better ways of doing this?

Maybe something like this

#+latex_header:     \floatstyle{ruled}
#+latex_header:     \newfloat{program}{tbp}{lop}[section]

#+caption: my program
#+begin_program
#+BEGIN_SRC sh
./somescripts.sh someargs
#+END_SRC
#+end_program

—Rasmus

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