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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label 2colfltorder</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Two-column float numbers out of order</h3>
+<p/>When LaTeX can&rsquo;t place a float immediately, it places it on one of
+several &ldquo;defer&rdquo; lists. If another float of the same type comes
+along, and the &ldquo;defer&rdquo; list for that type still has something in it,
+the later float has to wait for everything earlier in the list.
+<p/>Now, standard LaTeX has different lists for single-column floats,
+and double-column floats; this means that single-column figures can
+overtake double-column figures (or vice-versa), and you observe later
+figures appear in the document before early ones. The same is true,
+of course, for tables, or for any user-defined float.
+<p/>The LaTeX team recognise the problem, and provides a package
+(<i>fixltx2e</i>) to deal with it. <i>Fixltx2e</i> amalgamates
+the two defer lists, so that floats don&rsquo;t get out of order.
+<p/>For those who are still running an older LaTeX distribution, the
+package <i>fix2col</i> should serve. This package (also by a
+member of the LaTeX team) was the basis of the relevant part of
+<i>fixltx2e</i>. The functionality has also been included in
+<i>dblfloatfix</i>, which also has code to place full-width floats
+at <a href="FAQ-2colfloat.html"><code>[b]</code> placement</a>.
+<p/>Once you have loaded the package, no more remains to be done: the
+whole requirement is to patch the output routine; no extra commands
+are needed.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>dblfloatfix.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/dblfloatfix.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/dblfloatfix.sty</a>
+<dt><tt><i>fix2col.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.zip">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>fixltx2e.sty</i></tt><dd>Part of the LaTeX distribution
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=2colfltorder">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=2colfltorder</a>
+</body>