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Fine Tuning Float Positioning [duplicate]

How can I make a float have a dedicated page AND be always placed on an EVEN page (ie left page of double sided book)? I explicitly do not want to have certain floats taking up a whole page on the ...
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How to get dpfloat to take odd pages to be on left

This is a followup to the question: How to ensure that 2 couples of figures are on 2 facing pages?. The answer there was to use dpfloat. However, dpfloat assumes that even pages are on the left. In ...
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Two pictures, side by side on even and odd page

I am formatting a twopage book on latex and I have a diagram divided on two almost page size images. (Two captions). What can I do for putting the first image on an even page and the second on the ...
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Position two floats on opposing pages

I have some big body of text with a figure within it, and another figure that requires a full float page (I use \begin{figure}[p]). The two figures relate to one another, and should really be viewed ...
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Inconsistent rotations with \sidewaysfigure

In my document I'm largely using \sidewaysfigure. However, this results pictures with inconsistent placement and direction of included pictures and captions. By inconsistent I mean that figures and ...
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Rotating sidewaystable [duplicate]

I use memoir to typeset a book. I've got a couple of one-page, horizontal tables. To typeset them I use the following draft code: \begin{sidewaystable} \caption{ } \label{ } \vspace{-0.5mm} ...
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Wide figures to spill out into the outer, not inner, margin in double-sided documents

I'm writing a text where I have some figures that need to be wider than the text width, and I want then to spill out into the outer (in my text, rather wide) margin. I have tried a solution which I ...
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Rotate sidewaystable (twoside option): Top of table to the left

I have 3 sidewaystable's in a row, but have broken up the table into 3 separate tables, each of one page (much easier). I'm using the twoside option for the document. But this seems to affect the ...
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Image placement when \cleardoublepage command is called

If I start a new chapter or a new section, preceding it with \cleardoublepage command, which may or may not produce a blank page so that the new chapter or section starts on an odd numbered page ...
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Conditional figure environment (sideways, bottom captions)

For my phd dissertation I would like to have a new environment for figures that gives me the possibility to either place the caption sideways if there is enough space (say the figure width is < 0.6 ...
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Rotating figures to point to the outside edge

I am writing my thesis in LaTeX book style. I have a large figure that I want to rotate to make it viewable sideways. I can do this with the includegraphics option angle=90. My question: Is there a ...
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twoside introduces incorrect linespacing at end of section

I have: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report} with no special customisation. In one page, at the end of a section, I have a big figure with two paragraphs of text below it, and these two paragraphs ...
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Figures on left pages, text on right pages

I'm writing a thesis in the book document class and I'm using a lot of figures to explain the working method. If I use the method proposed in Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book, ...
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Placing figure on an even/odd page

I'm writing a two sided document (it will be printed as a book) and I've got two figures which takes up a whole page each. These two figures are related so I want them to be side by side in the ...
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How to make different caption placement for figures on odd and even pages?

For small figures, I want for captions to go on the right or on the left depending on the page number, whether it is odd or even. To do that I define the command \row as follows: ...
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How to make all figures float on the outer margins of two-side document?

I want to make a double-sided problem booklet that contains several questions. Each question has a distinct number and may have zero or more figures. Each figure has a caption and floats on the outer ...
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Figures in odd pages, text in even pages; if no figures, then odd=even pages (i.e., no blank pages w/ numbering and headers…)

I'm writing my thesis using \documentclass{book}. I have plenty of figures and I want them to appear always on the right hand of my manuscript (since this is the "attraction" page when reading, and ...
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How to synchronize sidewaystable with the odd/even page?

I have two tables, T1 and T2. I want these to appear in two pages as if the head-side of the table remains at the binding side of the book. Like this |||||>|<||||| |||||>|<||||| ...
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How to float until on left (or right) page?

I have two sideways tables that I want on two facing pages so the reader can turn the entire book and read them both in one turn. For the moment I keep moving them around to keep them on facing pages. ...
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Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book (cont.)

In addition to the very useful discussion Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book, numbering only on right pages, I would like to handle 2 other features: the suppression of blank ...
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How do I make a figure that spans a spread of two pages? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to include a picture over two pages, left part on left side, right on right (for books)? I have a huge TikZ graphic inside a figure environment. I would like it to ...
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How to include a picture over two pages, left part on left side, right on right (for books)?

When writing a long book (from 300 to over a 1000 pages), there is often need to include large pictures and one wishes to have them displayed over two pages, left half on the left page, right half on ...
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Set up sidewaysfigure to have the bottom of the figure toward the spine

I am typesetting a book. There are a couple figures that are wider than they are tall, and appear too small if placed on a page in the usual fashion. I have found that using the sidewaysfigure ...
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sidewaystable vs landscape environment (pdflscape-package) for landscape tables spanning double pages

As explained in several other posts, I'm currently trying to create wide tables. The document is in portrait format A4, but the tables shall be typeset in landscape format. As the tables have more ...
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Figures on left pages, text on right ones with class book, numbering only on right pages

My problem is that I would like to have either blank or figures on the left pages, and text on the right ones, with the numbering of the right pages to be 1,2,3,4,5 and not 1,3,5,7. It means, in a ...