This looks like a user configurable option, e.g. (setq org-latex-default-figure-position "htbp")
William Henney writes: > I think Jean Louis is right: it _is_ an org issue. The problem is that > the default value of org-latex-default-figure-position is "htb", which is a > very bad idea. The string always needs to contain a "p" in it somewhere, > otherwise latex will never be able to find a solution for figure placement > in cases with many floats and little or no text. > > Fuller explanation: The position specifiers "h" (here), "t" (top), and "b" > (bottom) are all for placing floats on a page that has some "normal" text > on. For all 3 cases, there is a minimum fraction of the page that must be > occupied by text (controlled by the parameter \textfraction, which by > default is 0.2). To get pages that are entirely occupied by floats, you > need to use the specifier "p" (page). So, by just using "htb" you are > giving latex a set of requirements that are impossible to satisfy if there > are many floats and no text. Hence the problem with "Too many unprocessed > floats". I would recommend that the default be "htbp" instead. > > Will > > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jean Louis <g...@rcdrun.com> wrote: > >> IMHO, the program Org Mode shall not give error when exporting PDF, or >> it should be documented that certain number of pictures are not >> tolerated and how to increase that number or how to avoid the problem. >> >> Maybe something like explained here: >> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46512/too-many-unprocessed-floats >> >> like "morefloats" package: >> ctan.org/pkg/morefloats >> >> or \extrafloats{100} >> >> But I did not get that working, I have simply turned off floats. >> >> Jean >> >> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 07:53:59PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Jean Louis <g...@rcdrun.com> writes: >> > >> > > It is solved for me, not solved in general as a problem in Org mode. >> > >> > I do not understand: which part is a problem on the Org side? >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > -- >> > Nicolas Goaziou >> >> -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
