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<p>Tables and figures have a tendency to surprise, by <em>floating</em>
away from where they were specified to appear. This is in fact
perfectly ordinary document design; any professional typesetting
-package will float figures and tables to where they'll fit without
+package will float figures and tables to where they&rsquo;ll fit without
violating the certain typographic rules. Even if you use the
-placement specifier <code>h</code> for 'here', the figure or table will not be
-printed 'here' if doing so would break the rules; the rules themselves
+placement specifier <code>h</code> for &lsquo;here&rsquo;, the figure or table will not be
+printed &lsquo;here&rsquo; if doing so would break the rules; the rules themselves
are pretty simple, and are given on page 198, section C.9 of the
-LaTeX manual. In the worst case, LaTeX's rules can cause the
+LaTeX manual. In the worst case, LaTeX&rsquo;s rules can cause the
floating items to pile up to the extent that you get an error message
saying
-<a href="FAQ-tmupfl.html">"Too many unprocessed floats"</a>.
+<a href="FAQ-tmupfl.html">&ldquo;Too many unprocessed floats&rdquo;</a>.
What follows is a simple checklist of things to do to solve these
problems (the checklist talks throughout about figures, but applies
-equally well to tables, or to "non-standard" floats defined by the
+equally well to tables, or to &ldquo;non-standard&rdquo; floats defined by the
<i>float</i> or other packages).
<ul>
<li> Do your figures need to float at all? If not, consider the
<code>[H]</code> placement option offered by the <i>float</i> package:
- figures with this placement are made up to look as if they're
- floating, but they don't in fact float. Beware outstanding floats,
+ figures with this placement are made up to look as if they&rsquo;re
+ floating, but they don&rsquo;t in fact float. Beware outstanding floats,
though: the <code>\</code><code>caption</code> commands are numbered in the order they
- appear in the document, and a <code>[H]</code> float can 'overtake' a float
- that hasn't yet been placed, so that figures numbers get out of
+ appear in the document, and a <code>[H]</code> float can &lsquo;overtake&rsquo; a float
+ that hasn&rsquo;t yet been placed, so that figures numbers get out of
order.
<li> Are the placement parameters on your figures right? The
default (<code>tbp</code>) is reasonable, but you can reasonably change it (for
- example, to add an <code>h</code>). Whatever you do, <em>don't</em>
- omit the '<code>p</code>': doing so could cause LaTeX to believe that if you
- can't have your figure <em>here</em>, you don't want it
+ example, to add an <code>h</code>). Whatever you do, <em>don&rsquo;t</em>
+ omit the &lsquo;<code>p</code>&rsquo;: doing so could cause LaTeX to believe that if you
+ can&rsquo;t have your figure <em>here</em>, you don&rsquo;t want it
<em>anywhere</em>. (LaTeX does try hard to avoid being confused in
this way...)
-<li> LaTeX's own float placement parameters could be preventing
- placements that seem entirely "reasonable" to you - they're
+<li> LaTeX&rsquo;s own float placement parameters could be preventing
+ placements that seem entirely &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo; to you &mdash; they&rsquo;re
notoriously rather conservative. To encourage LaTeX not to move
your figure, you need to loosen its demands. (The most important
- ones are the ratio of text to float on a given page, but it's
+ ones are the ratio of text to float on a given page, but it&rsquo;s
sensible to have a fixed set that changes the whole lot, to meet
every eventuality.)
<pre>
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ equally well to tables, or to "non-standard" floats defined by the
\setcounter{dbltopnumber}{9}
</pre>
The meanings of these
- parameters are described on pages 199-200, section C.9 of the
+ parameters are described on pages 199&ndash;200, section C.9 of the
LaTeX manual.
-<li> Are there places in your document where you could 'naturally'
+<li> Are there places in your document where you could &lsquo;naturally&rsquo;
put a <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code> command? If so, do: the backlog of floats is
cleared after a <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code>. (Note that the <code>\</code><code>chapter</code>
command in the standard <i>book</i> and <i>report</i> classes
- implicitly executes <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code>, so you can't float past
+ implicitly executes <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code>, so you can&rsquo;t float past
the end of a chapter.)
<li> Try the <i>placeins</i> package: it defines a
<code>\</code><code>FloatBarrier</code> command beyond which floats may not pass. A
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ equally well to tables, or to "non-standard" floats defined by the
of putting <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code> <em>after</em> the current page (where it
will clear the backlog, but not cause an ugly gap in your text), but
also admits that the package is somewhat fragile. Use it as a last
- resort if the other possibilities below don't help.
+ resort if the other possibilities below don&rsquo;t help.
<li> If you would actually <em>like</em> great blocks of floats at the
end of each of your chapters, try the <i>morefloats</i> package;
- this 'simply' increases the number of floating inserts that LaTeX
+ this &lsquo;simply&rsquo; increases the number of floating inserts that LaTeX
can handle at one time (from 18 to 36).
<li> If you actually <em>wanted</em> all your figures to float to the
- end (<em>e.g</em>., for submitting a draft copy of a paper), don't
- rely on LaTeX's mechanism: get the <i>endfloat</i> package to do
+ end (<em>e.g</em>., for submitting a draft copy of a paper), don&rsquo;t
+ rely on LaTeX&rsquo;s mechanism: get the <i>endfloat</i> package to do
the job for you.
</ul>
<dl>