On 22.08.08, Guillaume Larocque wrote: > Guillaume Larocque wrote: > >> Ok, here are the exact symptoms of the problem. If I have a few floats > >> inserted in a sequence in Lyx, as soon as Latex decides that one float > >> will be on a separate page, all the floats following it will also be > >> placed on a separate page, regardless of their size. > > > >Are you saying that after the first float gets a separate page, each of > >the subsequent floats sits alone on a page?
> Yes. What I have in a few places in my document is something like: one > large float, 4 smaller floats, one other large float and then 3 > smaller floats again. > Latex decides to put the one large float on a separate page and then > it puts all the rest of the floats on seperate pages > **also at the end of the Chapter.** It looks to me as if your documentclass (or some loaded package or preamble setting) creates a "page of floats" only **at the end of a chapter**. As the order of floats is never changed, subsequent floats in this chapter are placed behind this "page of floats". As a new chapter starts on a new page, these floats will also be alone on a page. > Its probably deciding that there are too many floats that will break > the text. I get that behaviour even if I select 'top of page' for all > the floats. What happens, if you activate the "ignore LaTeX rules" button? > I managed to get the floats pretty much where I want them with info > from this website: http://people.cs.uu.nl/piet/floats/node1.html > Particularly with the use of: > \afterpage{\clearpage} > and by moving some floats between paragraphs. I was just hoping that > Latex would figure all this out for me. As "good layout" (and font-placing) is a matter of taste, LaTeX cannot please all without some configuration efforts from the side of users that have a different taste from the documentclass designers. This is why typesetting with LaTeX/LyX is straightforward if you find a documentstyle you happen to like (or which fullfills the requirements of the institution you write for) but is a pain, if you do not like the default output. Günter
