james@abby.chem.ucla.edu (James Wilkinson) (07/28/90)
I have a user who needs to put all of her figure captions at the end of her
LaTeX document. She has about twenty-five captions in a row, all of the form:
\begin{figure}
\caption[title]{text...}
\label{labelname}
\end{figure}
The caption texts average around fifty words each. LaTeXing such a file
induces the LaTeX error:
! Too many unprocesed floats.
Ok, so I look in Chapter 6 of the LaTeX book, and it refers to logjams and
such. So I move the offending figure to the beginning of the text, but I
still receive the same error on the same line of the LaTeX file.
So is there some upper limit on how many figures may be placed in a row in a
LaTeX document? Is there a way to get around this? Her publishing
requirements necessitate placing all captions together. Perhaps she shouldn't
use the figure environment, but simply make the captions independent of the
figure environment? Thanks in advance.
JaW
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Los Angeles, California 90024-1569 SPAN: ABBY::JAMES or 5882::JAMESdhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/28/90)
In article <0093A4F7.248A7EC0@WIFFIN.CHEM.UCLA.EDU>, james@abby.chem.ucla.edu (James Wilkinson) writes... > I have a user who needs to put all of her figure captions at the end of her >LaTeX document. She has about twenty-five captions in a row, all of the form: >\begin{figure} > \caption[title]{text...} > \label{labelname} >\end{figure} >The caption texts average around fifty words each. LaTeXing such a file >induces the LaTeX error: >! Too many unprocesed floats. >Ok, so I look in Chapter 6 of the LaTeX book, and it refers to logjams and >such. So I move the offending figure to the beginning of the text, but I >still receive the same error on the same line of the LaTeX file. >So is there some upper limit on how many figures may be placed in a row in a >LaTeX document? Is there a way to get around this? Her publishing >requirements necessitate placing all captions together. Perhaps she shouldn't >use the figure environment, but simply make the captions independent of the >figure environment? Thanks in advance. Well first, shouldn't she be leaving some space for the pasted-in figures? (my personal recommendation is to use the picture environment to grab the space rather than \vspace. The former is somewhat more indicative of what the space is for and also makes it easier to position electronicly pasted figures, e.g., \begin{center} \begin{picture}(200,100) % Inserted picture 200pts by 100pts \put(0,0)}{\special{include,format=epsf,file=foo.ps}} \end{picture} \end{center} (think about it)). But back to the problem at hand, too many unprocessed floats. The problem here is that LaTeX holds all the floats in memory until it decides that it's a good time to output the floats. Normally, this happens when LaTeX hits the end of a page or the end of a document. From your description, it sounds like your user just has a list of floats at the end of the document, so LaTeX dutifully stores up the floats until it can't store any more. As you can imagine, this is can cause problems. In particular, LaTeX only has provisions to store 18 floats by default, which is seven fewer than you have. A kind of hacky way would be to insert \clearpage periodically among the floats; but if more than one float is desired per page, this could result in underfilled pages. Another approach would be to allow LaTeX to hold more floats in memory. The style option below will allow up to 36 floats to be held in memory (although many TeX implementations will run out of TeX memory before that limit is reached). Homework: 1. (For beginners) Suppose only one float is desired per page containing only floats. How can this be done? (it's in the LaTeX book.) 2. (For low-level wizards) Why is \@currlist defined with \gdef below? 3. (For high-level wizards) Define a macro \clearfloats which will take all floats to appear so far in the LaTeX file and print them with as many floats as LaTeX will allow per page. If the last page could possibly have at least one more float on it, then those floats should be held over until the next time LaTeX attempts to print floats. \clearfloats may assume that it will only appear in long stretches of floats which are preceeded by \clearpage. % \iffalse %% This is morefloats.sty as of 27-July-1990 %% Don Hosek, Quixote <dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu> % \fi % % The task at hand is to increase \LaTeX's current limit of 18 unprocessed % floats in memory at once to 36. An examination of latex.tex reveals that % this is accomplished by allocating an insert register for each unprocessed % float. A quick check of lplain.lis reveals that there is room, in fact, % for 230 additional unprocessed floats, but \TeX's main memory would be % exhausted long before that happened. % % First we allocate the additional insert registers needed: % \begin{macrocode} \newinsert\bxS \newinsert\bxT \newinsert\bxU \newinsert\bxV \newinsert\bxW \newinsert\bxX \newinsert\bxY \newinsert\bxZ \newinsert\bxAA \newinsert\bxBB \newinsert\bxCC \newinsert\bxDD \newinsert\bxEE \newinsert\bxFF \newinsert\bxGG \newinsert\bxHH \newinsert\bxII \newinsert\bxJJ % \end{macrocode} % % That accomplished, the next step is to define the macro \verb+\@freelist+ % which is merely a list of the box registers each preceded by \verb+\@elt+. % This approach allows processing of the list to be done far more efficiently. % A similar approach is used by Mittelbach \& Sch\"opf's {\tt doc.sty} to % keep track of control sequences which should not be indexed. % \begin{macrocode} \gdef\@freelist{\@elt\bx@A\@elt\bx@B\@elt\bx@C\@elt\bx@D\@elt\bx@E \@elt\bx@F\@elt\bx@G\@elt\bx@H\@elt\bx@I\@elt\bx@J \@elt\bx@K\@elt\bx@L\@elt\bx@M\@elt\bx@N \@elt\bx@O\@elt\bx@P\@elt\bx@Q\@elt\bx@R \@elt\bx@S\@elt\bx@T\@elt\bx@U\@elt\bx@V \@elt\bx@W\@elt\bx@X\@elt\bx@Y\@elt\bx@Z \@elt\bx@AA\@elt\bx@BB\@elt\bx@CC\@elt\bx@DD \@elt\bx@EE\@elt\bx@FF\@elt\bx@GG\@elt\bx@HH \@elt\bx@II\@elt\bx@JJ} % \end{macrocode} \endinput --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. 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guy@physics (Guy Metcalfe) (07/29/90)
In article <7972@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes: >In article <0093A4F7.248A7EC0@WIFFIN.CHEM.UCLA.EDU>, james@abby.chem.ucla.edu (James Wilkinson) writes... > >> I have a user who needs to put all of her figure captions at the end of her >>LaTeX document. She has about twenty-five captions in a row, all of the form > >Well first, shouldn't she be leaving some space for the pasted-in >figures? (my personal recommendation is to use the picture... >(think about it)). > Dhosek may be missing the point here. Many physics and chemistry journals require that figures be bundled together at the end of a paper with the figure captions listed together on a separate page or pages. Since the original question came from a chemistry dept, I suspect (but don't know) that this may be the requirment. In which case using the aip document style (probably available on ymir) may be the simpler answer. -- Guy Metcalfe Duke University Dept. of Physics guy@phy.duke.edu & Center for Nonlinear Studies guy@physics.phy.duke.edu Durham, N.C. 27706 guy%phy.duke.edu@cs.duke.edu
gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore) (07/29/90)
In article <21081@duke.cs.duke.edu> guy@physics.phy.duke.edu (Guy Metcalfe) writes: >.... Many physics and chemistry journals require that figures be bundled >together at the end of a paper with the figure captions listed together on a >separate page or pages. ... In which case using the aip document style >(probably available on ymir) may be the simpler answer. Why not just put \listoffigures at the end of the document to produce the caption list? This is what I did for an ASME (mechanical engineering) journal. Of course, you also must set the appropriate LaTeX parameters to hold all floats to the end of the document. -- Scott Gilmore gilmore@vax1.udel.edu Mechanical Engineering and Center for Composite Materials, U. of Delaware