On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:15:55PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
>
> 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.
Hate to say this, but that's where your problem lies. When I wrote my
thesis, I put my floats at least one *paragraph* after they were first
referenced. In some cases, you may want to put them two paragraphs
ahead.
This is not a problem with the thesis class ... any thesis class, or
with LyX. It's a problem with the user. Put a figure in a bad place
and your resulting text won't turn out all that great. The middle of
a paragraph --- especially a short paragraph --- is a bad place. Ends
or beginnings of large paragraphs are better. Remember, the more text
you put between tiny paragraphs and the float, the less likely the
float will end up smack in the middle. The further the float is from
a section heading, the less likely you'll have huge chunks of empty
space. The more text between the first reference to the float and the
float itself, the less likely LaTeX will move it before the reference.
--
John Weiss
