Hi Uwe et al.,
> > I'm currently writing a long document with a number of table
> > floats (actually they contain code snippets). I would like to put
> > a frame around those, and/or use a shaded background.
>
> With the LaTeX-package "float", you can define your own float or
> redefine an existing one. But the package does only provide four
> float styles: plain, plaintop, boxed, and ruled
>
> In the attached example, I redefined the table float in the
> preamble in the style boxed.
That's already more than I got, but the caption is still outside the
box :-(
> Because the float package defines the caption label as bold,
> I used the LaTeX-package "caption" to set the label in sansserif.
"\usepackage[labelfont=sf]{caption}" leads to an error here (LyX 1.3.5
on a SuSE 9.0)., but with "\usepackage[sf]{caption}", it works as
intended ... however, this command only sets the caption label, not
the whole caption. I like to have the whole caption in a different
font, so I use the following code in the LaTeX Preamble:
\usepackage{caption2}
\renewcommand\captionfont{\itshape\small}
The problem is that both are overridden if you change the float style
to "boxed" (which is a nice style for code) ...
> I'm interested in a floatstyle with a colored background. In the
> description of "float" the code is described to define own styles,
> but my plain TeX knowledge lacks.
There are some ideas in the 'fancybox' package, but still is _nothing_
about shading the background ...
Thanks & best regards,
- Joerg
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