Aloha Pete, Pete Ley <peteley11...@gmail.com> writes:
> Just a quick question for someone new to and quickly becoming enamored > with org-latex-export. > > I'm encountering a problem with my floats. Namely, I have a section with > not much text and several floats, it's probably about a page worth of > actual text and 7-10 gnuplot-generated graph images. I have the gnuplot > code inline in the text and the images are included from the #+RESULTS. > > My problem is that LaTeX keeps pushing them farther down the page until > some of them are at the end, after the appendices. Is there a way I can > maybe shrink the images to make them fit or force it to render them > inline even if it leaves some blank space on the page? I wouldn't mind > making them all quite small and having text flow around them but I'd > rather not have to put in these settings for each and every graph. Can I > do this as a default setting for all of them? > > Is there a set of best practices for this kind of thing? Sorry if this > is a beginner question, but I haven't had much luck searching. I think the variable you might want is org-export-latex-image-default-option, which you can set in your .emacs, or on a per-file basis, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-02/msg00355.html. The problem you're describing with floats collecting at the end of a document is a fact of life in LaTeX, and is often caused by one too-large image. One way is to set a smaller size for the image, and another is to ensure that [p] is one of the letters in the placement attribute--this lets a float appear on its own page. hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
