robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) (03/14/91)
In LaTeX how do you stop figures floating around apart from \begin{figure}[h] I want to know exactly where they appear as I use a \special to include graphics in the output, but the area where I put the picture is not the same when I left the space for it....very annoying. Ideally I would like a macro which would also allow the special to float to the same page as the figure has floated to.. advTHANKSance Robin Smith
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/15/91)
In article <9162@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes:
\begin{figure}[h]
I want to know exactly where they appear as I use a \special to include
graphics in the output, but the area where I put the picture is not the
same when I left the space for it....very annoying.
Ideally I would like a macro which would also allow the special to float
to the same page as the figure has floated to..
I find this rather confusing. surely if you say
\begin{figure}
\special{....}
\end{figure}
then the special information will go wherever the figure goes? how can
it not? and if you want a picture HERE RIGHT HERE NO MESSING, why are
you using the figure environment?
Sebastian
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tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) (03/18/91)
In article <9162@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes: >In LaTeX how do you stop figures floating around apart from >\begin{figure}[h] > >I want to know exactly where they appear as I use a \special to include >graphics in the output, but the area where I put the picture is not the >same when I left the space for it....very annoying. > >Ideally I would like a macro which would also allow the special to float >to the same page as the figure has floated to. The whole point of the figure and table envirnments is to float their contents. Just leave out the \begin{figure}, \end{figure} and \caption{}, and whatever was in the environment is placed right where you put it in the source file. You can then add a caption if you want. If a special is placed inside the figure environment, it should float with everything else, although specials are special, so it depends. Tim