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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&rsquo;ll fit without
+package will float figures and tables to where they&#8217;ll fit without
violating the certain typographic rules. Even if you use the
-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
+placement specifier <code>h</code> for &#8216;here&#8217;, the figure or table will not be
+printed &#8216;here&#8217; 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&rsquo;s rules can cause the
+LaTeX manual. In the worst case, LaTeX&#8217;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">&ldquo;Too many unprocessed floats&rdquo;</a>.
+saying <a href="FAQ-tmupfl.html">&#8220;Too many unprocessed floats&#8221;</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 &ldquo;non-standard&rdquo; floats defined by the
+equally well to tables, or to &#8220;non-standard&#8221; floats defined by the
<i>float</i> or other packages).
<ul>
<li> Do your figures need to float at all? If not, look at the
- recommendations for &ldquo;<a href="FAQ-figurehere.html">non-floating floats</a>&rdquo;
+ recommendations for &#8220;<a href="FAQ-figurehere.html">non-floating floats</a>&#8221;
<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&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
+ example, to add an <code>h</code>). Whatever you do, <em>don&#8217;t</em>
+ omit the &#8216;<code>p</code>&#8217;: doing so could cause LaTeX to believe that if you
+ can&#8217;t have your figure <em>here</em>, you don&#8217;t want it
<em>anywhere</em>. (LaTeX does try hard to avoid being confused in
- this way&hellip;)
-<li> LaTeX&rsquo;s own float placement parameters could be preventing
- placements that seem entirely &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo; to you &mdash; they&rsquo;re
+ this way&#8230;)
+<li> LaTeX&#8217;s own float placement parameters could be preventing
+ placements that seem entirely &#8220;reasonable&#8221; to you &#8212; they&#8217;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&rsquo;s
+ ones are the ratio of text to float on a given page, but it&#8217;s
sensible to have a fixed set that changes the whole lot, to meet
every eventuality.)
<pre>
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ equally well to tables, or to &ldquo;non-standard&rdquo; floats defined by the
\setcounter{dbltopnumber}{9}
</pre>
The meanings of these
- parameters are described on pages 199&ndash;200, section C.9 of the
+ parameters are described on pages 199&#8211;200, section C.9 of the
LaTeX manual.
-<li> Are there places in your document where you could &lsquo;naturally&rsquo;
+<li> Are there places in your document where you could &#8216;naturally&#8217;
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&rsquo;t float past
+ implicitly executes <code>\</code><code>clearpage</code>, so you can&#8217;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
@@ -69,18 +69,18 @@ equally well to tables, or to &ldquo;non-standard&rdquo; 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&rsquo;t help.
+ resort if the other possibilities below don&#8217;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 &lsquo;simply&rsquo; increases the number of floating inserts that LaTeX
+ this &#8216;simply&#8217; 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&rsquo;t
- rely on LaTeX&rsquo;s mechanism: get the <i>endfloat</i> package to do
+ end (<em>e.g</em>., for submitting a draft copy of a paper), don&#8217;t
+ rely on LaTeX&#8217;s mechanism: get the <i>endfloat</i> package to do
the job for you.
</ul>
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>afterpage.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>afterpage.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/afterpage.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>endfloat.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat.zip">macros/latex/contrib/endfloat</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>flafter.sty</i></tt><dd>Part of the LaTeX distribution
<dt><tt><i>float.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float.zip">macros/latex/contrib/float</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/float/">browse the directory</a>)