multicolumn figures in latex

[Chris Gray <chrismgray@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I wanted to make a figure that spanned multiple lines in LaTeX.  The
way to do that is via the figure* environment.  Since org-mode didn't
seem to support that, I hacked it in.  The patch is attached.

Cheers,
Chris

commit 4cb1a153245189aa062db4545dad76bdf413a1e1
Author: Chris Gray <chrismgray@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu May 6 12:58:00 2010 +0200

    Add support for multicolumn figures in LaTeX.

	Modified lisp/ChangeLog
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 7f1a507..74ee48d 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-05-06  Chris Gray  <chrismgray@gmail.com>
+
+	* org-latex.el (org-export-latex-format-image): Add support
+	for multicolumn figures in LaTeX.  
+
 2010-05-02  Dan Davison  <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
 
 	* org-src.el (org-edit-src-code): allow-write-back-p had
	Modified lisp/org-latex.el
diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
index 2051de1..22833b2 100644
--- a/lisp/org-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
@@ -1881,14 +1881,17 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
 
 (defun org-export-latex-format-image (path caption label attr)
   "Format the image element, depending on user settings."
-  (let (ind floatp wrapp placement figenv)
+  (let (ind floatp wrapp multicolumnp placement figenv)
     (setq floatp (or caption label))
     (setq ind (org-get-text-property-any 0 'original-indentation path))
     (when (and attr (stringp attr))
       (if (string-match "[ \t]*\\<wrap\\>" attr)
 	  (setq wrapp t floatp nil attr (replace-match "" t t attr)))
       (if (string-match "[ \t]*\\<float\\>" attr)
-	  (setq wrapp nil floatp t attr (replace-match "" t t attr))))
+	  (setq wrapp nil floatp t attr (replace-match "" t t attr)))
+      (if (string-match "[ \t]*\\<multicolumn\\>" attr)
+	  (setq multicolumnp t attr (replace-match "" t t attr))))
+    
 
     (setq placement
 	  (cond
@@ -1912,6 +1915,11 @@ The conversion is made depending of STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
 \\includegraphics[%attr]{%path}
 \\caption{%labelcmd%caption}
 \\end{wrapfigure}")
+	   (multicolumnp "\\begin{figure*}%placement
+\\centering
+\\includegraphics[%attr]{%path}
+\\caption{%labelcmd%caption}
+\\end{figure*}")
 	   (floatp "\\begin{figure}%placement
 \\centering
 \\includegraphics[%attr]{%path}