On 01-Jul-99 Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
>
>martin mentioned,
>
>> > Starting with h for placement, whether h, h!t, or ht, means that if it
>> > moves to the next page, only one figure per page occurs. Now I'm
>> > stuck: i'm not supposed to be moving on to more text if I can put more
>> > figures.
>
>> > How do I force this without playing games with where my floats occur in
>> > the text? I'm putting them immediately after the reference to them at
>> > the moment. I need to have them appear after the first reference to
>> > them (i.e., after where they occur in the text), but be two per page if
>> > there's room. argh, argh, argh.
>
>> Hmmm. Read LaTeX Companion pages 144-146 for Good Ideas$^TM$. You may want
>to
>> play games with \suppressfloats{} and/or \afterpage{\clearpage}.
>
>unfortunately, i can't get my hands on that one. I have the Koptka/
>Daily _Guide to Latex2e_
>
>But I've tracked a lot of it down; \textfracton was too big, so it
>insists on having that much text on a page with floats. Toning that
>down gets me close; two figures now appear on pages where they should,
>but it fills the rest of the page with text--three lines, one short of
>the minimum.
>
>I assume I need something along the lines of widow/orphan control, butt
>all I can find in this book is widowpenalty and clubpenalty. I've
>looked up every variation of every word that i've thought of vor this,
>but i seem to think differently enough from the folks who named this
>stuff that it's not much use :(
>
>I suppose I can make the floats a bit bigger, but this gives new
>problems if they get longer captions . . .
A simpler way to cheat might be to increase \floatsep or \textfloatsep, to
artificially decrease the amount of space that LaTeX will try to fill with text
on these pages. Then the normal widow/orphan stuff should take over.
Carl
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