{floats} is about the floating environments figure, table and other, custom-defined floats, and concerns issues such as positioning, labelling, captioning, indexing and listing of said floats. For questions specifically about formatting a float caption, consider using {captions}.
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How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference
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Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared?
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Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?
What is the correct way to center figures and tables (figure, table)?
\begin{center}
...
\end{center}
or
\begin{centering}
...
\end{centering}
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Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements
Some document elements (e.g., figures in the book class) are numbered per chapter (figure 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, ...). How can I achieve continuous numbering (figure 1, 2, 3, ...)?
And vice versa: Some ...
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How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Often floats may land quite a bit later in the document than the point they are created, sometimes after a section break.
Is there a way to force a new section to start on a new page, after any ...
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Center figure that is wider than \textwidth
I have a figure that is wider than the \textwidth of my document. (I don't want to change the \textwidth.) As a result, the leftmost part of the figure is flush with the left margin, while the ...
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subcaption vs. subfig: Best package for referencing a subfigure
On this question a comment by Martin H says, that one should forget about the subfigure and subfig packages and use subcaption. As subfig replaces subfigure, no argument there.
I am currently using ...
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Force figure placement in text
I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:
\begin{figure}[ht]
...
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How to avoid splitting tables between sections
I have 5 tables and a section after them. After creation of an output file I have two tables on one page, then a section and last 3 tables on next page.
What I want to achieve is to put tables and ...
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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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Two figures side by side
How can I put two figures side-by-side? Not two sub-figures, but two actual figures with separate "Fig.: bla bla" captions. A figure is supposed to spread over the entire text width, but I have two ...
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Why should a table caption be placed above the table?
In the papers I read the caption in figure floats is placed below the figure and in table floats the caption is placed above the table.
I recognize that this is a common style that a lot of people ...
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Table and Figure side-by-side with independent captions
Looking to put a table and a figure side by side so that the table and figure have their own captions. A crude sketch
------------ -----------------
TABLE
| a | b | ...
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How to make a figure span on two columns in a scientific paper?
If I just try to set the figure's size to 0.9\textwidth my figure will just end up on the right column, sized to be two-columns wide.
Has anyone done this before?
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How to protect text from being split by a float?
Given following situation:
\begin{figure}[ht!]
...
\end{figure}
\begin{equation}
...
\end{equation}
Some one-line text.
\begin{eqnarray}
...
...
\end{eqnarray}
how can I make ...
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Table and multi-page
I'm writing some sort of book and i've got a very large table.
I was wondering if there was a way to span a table not in the length but in the width.
In the end, i would like to be able to divide ...
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Change caption name of figures
How can I modify the caption name of a figure? For example I have
\caption{This is a figure.}
and by default the caption appears as
Figure 1: This is a figure.
However I want
Fig.1 - This ...
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Placing figures inside a two-column document
I'm trying to get images in my document in two different ways:
On top of the entire page, centered
On top of a single column
I tried it with both twocols and multicols. I ruled out twocols because ...
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How can I get the figures not to be pushed to the end of the document?
For some reason, my figures get pushed to the end of the document. I tried begin{figure}[t], [h] and other options, but none helped. Any ideas how to get the figures to appear much earlier in the ...
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href to an image label - how to jump to the image instead of the caption below the image?
I'm using the following command to embed images in my LaTeX document (which is then rendered as PDF)
\newcommand{\img}[4]{
\begin{figure}[!hbt]
\centering
\vspace{1ex}
...
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Place figures side by side, spill into outer margin
I would like to place two figures side by side (not subfigures) and what’s more, I’d like to let the figures spill into the outer margin (since they are too wide for the the text width. Like this:
...
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Figure numbers using the section number
One of my sections seems to be using the section number rather than the appropriate figure number for \ref's that point to figures. (Theorems and the like work fine.) As far as I can tell, there's ...
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Rounded corner colored box around figure
I'm trying to get Rounded corner grey-colored box around figures.
One solution would be to use
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{boxed}
\restylefloat{figure}
but this results in black box around a ...
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How to fix table position
Table does not show up at the same position it was inserted in the TeX file. I got the understanding through bit of reading on this forum that they are floats and they pick the best place on the ...
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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 ...
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Force floats to be typeset after their occurrence in the source text?
AFAIK a figure or table should always be placed after the first reference to it in the text.
So I always place the code for my figures and tables after the paragraph which contains the first ...
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Adding word 'Table' before each entry in list of tables
I need to prefix each entry in list of tables and figures with appropriate text - table or figure for each. Also I need to remove chapter numbers from list, because tables are numbered consequently ...
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19 simple tables giving “TeX capacity exceeded” / “Too many unprocessed floats”?
When I added a couple of rather unremarkable tables to my document, it stopped compiling (using pdflatex):
"TeX capacity exceeded (main memory)"
I searched the web a bit (well, actually, mostly ...
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Extended draft mode which includes source information for manual print-out to source synchronisation
I'm looking for a kind of extended draft mode which places the source code position of paragraphs, sectioning commands and figures etc. as marginpars or similar in the PDF, so that they appear on a ...
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Algorithm over 2 pages
I am writing a few rather large pseudocode functions using algorithm and algorithmic, i.e. my code looks something like:
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Coolest Algorithm ever} ...
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Is it possible to use the figure environment with the standalone package?
I can not get standalone to work with figures; I get the error Not in outer par mode.
(The figure is in the included file.)
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How to change the spacing between figures/tables and text?
I was wondering if there is any way to lessen the spaces between figures and text. In my paper I have a lot of figures (graphics) and it is inconvenient for me to have default (large) spaces between ...
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What is the exact purpose of \ftype@<TYPE>?
I currently working on some float related code an saw that the standard float environments figure and table define (beside others) the macros \def\ftype@figure{1} and \def\ftype@table{2}.
The LaTeX ...
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Using an image as a table
I have an image containing tabular data and would not like to convert this to a real table. What I do want is for this image to have a proper caption and be included in the listoftables.
Is it ...
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How to remove figure label?
I'm using floatrow package to organise my figures, but then would like to add an image in the preliminary chapters which should NOT contain figure label e.g. Figure 1, but only the caption To my ...
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Tables below footnotes, is this a good output routine algorithm or a bug?
Consider the minimal code below, which produces two different layouts depending on the table position marks.
The first layout uses
\begin{table}
which results in the table ending below the ...
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How to place a float at the top of a floats-only page?
I just got a short algorithm on my page, and it keeps getting aligned at the center of the page. But I want to have it aligned at the top, what do I have to do?
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Create caption without float AND without caption-package?
In the appendix of my thesis, there is a large number of tables and longtables which does not need to float, as they shall appear one after the other just how they fit on the pages (and it is no ...
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Margin Figures/Captions
I have two figure/caption related questions.
Firstly, in many textbooks, it is customary to put thin figures (along with their captions) entirely in the outer margin of the page. What is the most ...
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Using \footnote in a figure's \caption
Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :)
I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\caption{a figure ...
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LaTeX figures side by side [duplicate]
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Two figures side by side
I want to place 2 images side by side in LaTeX. I have 2 .png files and I don't understand how to do it in LaTeX. I have tried many ways but ...
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Code spanning over two pages with minted, inside listing with caption
I am trying using minted to display some code in my document, but the code is long and spans over two pages, this works fine, however when I place my code inside
\begin{listing}
...
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Image inside another image
I currently have some LaTeX code to have multiple images side by side:
\begin{figure*}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=2cm]{foo11.jpg}
\includegraphics[height=2cm]{foo12.jpg}\\
...
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When do I need invoke \clearpage manually?
I am not sure whether invoking \clearpage is necessary or redundant at many places in my input .tex files.
Here I will ask you, in what condition is invoking \clearpage necessary?
I hope I get a ...
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Margin floats and hyperlinks
I read Margin Figures/captions and the answers within. I have stripped the definition of the marginfloats from the tufte documentclass into the MWE below.
Can the definition of ...
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How to create multilevel figure / table numbers?
How to create figure numbers like 1.1.1 and then 1.2.1, not 1.2.2?
I mean even if I added \arabic{section} into the command, the order of figures is still continuous, not accordingly rearranged by ...
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Help aligning tables.
I need to align 1 table to the right and two to the left,
the layout I want to achieve is something like this:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\subfloat[]{%
\begin{tabular}[b]{cc}
\hline
0 ...
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Put a figure with a table side by side
I have a table and a figure, I want to align them one next to the other (not one under the other):
\documentclass{llncs}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
...
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\intextsep gives doubled space
If a float (black box) follows my {example} environment (gray left line) the skip between them is too big. I guess it’s twice \baselineskip but it should be only one \baselineskip plus some glue. It ...
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longtabu and floats: wrong table breaks on pages with floats
I noticed that the tabu package seems to have problems with its longtabu environment, if it is placed on a page, where a float already is placed.
Consider the following MWE:
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