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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
Subject: Re: Exporting source code blocks as LaTeX figures
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Aloha James,

James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> instead? I.e., why don't you apply caption to src block? You can tweak
>> the position of the caption with "captionpos" option in listings
>> environment.
>
> Wow, I hadn't thought of that. Actually that works better in a lot of ways.
>
> Then the next problem... I'm going to have some figures that need to
> span two columns. According to [1], I should use \begin{figure*} ...
> \end{figure*}. Is there a way to do that using a special block? (First
> guess, "#+BEGIN_figure*" causes the special block not to be
> recognized.) Or do I need to write the literal LaTeX code for that?
>

No, you don't need to write literal LaTeX code. See Section 12.7.4 of
the manual, which describes setting the :float attribute to
'multicolumn'.

hth,
Tom

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