{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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Replicate Figure w/out Inserting New Entry in List of Figures
I would like to replicate a figure in Chapter 3 within Chapter 6 such that the figure is displayed and optionally, it has the caption and Figure number of the figure in Chapter 3. If that is not ...
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Spacing between figures and texts
I'm having some issues dealing with figures. It happens that when I have a page with some text and then it comes a figure, with H property, who doesn't fits into the same page as the text, the text ...
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How to use figure inside a exercise environment?
Trying to use figure inside an Exercise environment (exercise.sty) gives me "LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode."
Example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[]{exercise}
\begin{document}
...
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subfigures with memoir
I switched to memoir and stopped including subfig and now all my subfigures interpret the caption as actual text, i.e., "[caption...]" shows up in the document with the square brackets. How do I have ...
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floatrow: Changing the formatting of table footnotes
The floatrow package, which is useful for customizing the layout of floats, also allows to add footnotes as well as additional explanations (besides the caption) to tables. (The main commands are ...
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Numbers of figure references
I use enumerating of figures within the section
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}}
however, when I use a reference to subfigure, instead of 1.1 (a) I get 1(a). How should I ...
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Numbering figures and tables by their section
I am having trouble formatting my list of figures and list of tables.
Currently, my tex document is printing the list in the following manner:
1 Foreign Key Constraint Problem Due
to Improper ...
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How to retain figures only with captions in their original positions
The publisher of our book has requested us to modify the source of the book so that only figures with their captions remain retaining their original positions in the document as if the rest of the ...
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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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Plenty of space on page but can't make figures bigger
I am trying to put two figures on one page in latex, without using minipage. But the second figure is moved to the next page at a certain size, even though there is plenty of white space left on the ...
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Insert image in latex [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Force figure placement in text
Hi! I'm trying to insert an image in latex with some text around:
Here is our image:
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
...
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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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Captions for figures in \listoffigures
When I use \listoftables and \listoffigures I get in the list long captions that appear next to the tables/figures.
I would like to use short captions for this list which summarize these captions. Is ...
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How to put table and PNG next to each other in the same figure?
How can I put a table and a PNG (using \includegraphics) next to each other in the same figure, in the following way?
+----+
+-----+ |png |
|table| |png |
|table| |png |
...
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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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Framed text with a float in it
I'd like to frame the text between \startfoo and \stopfoo, but there is a float in it.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\startfoo
\begin{figure}[h]
some float with a \caption{...}
...
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Extra page at beginning of appendix containing big figures
I have an appendix that contains two full-page figures. The first page of the appendix is always blank except for the title -- I suspect this is a common problem with appendices of full page figures.
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How to place all floats (tables in particular) at a certain point in the document
I would like to place all of the tables in the document at the end but before the bibliography generated by biblatex and the notes printed by endnotes.
In other words, I'd like to collect the tables ...
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Place all floats last without changing numbering
I'd like to place some of my floats (specifically code listings) in my documents in a section at the end, without disturbing the numbering. Currently, I have them numbered within sections, so in ...
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Figure title in List of Figures
I've got a figure which has several annotations on-image. The figure caption explains these:
\caption{Image of my item. (1) Part of the item. (2) Another notable part of the item. (3) Yet another ...
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How can I inhibit LaTeX to float a table across a section boundary? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How to avoid splitting tables between sections.
How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
I have a couple of tables that ...
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3answers
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Macro for figure position?
Why is the following minimal example not working?
I.e., what do I need to do, in order to define the float placement specifier of a figure within a macro? (I know that I should use \newcommand, but ...
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Placing Subfigures vertically
I want to use subfigures to place three figures like this:
The following is the code I used:
\begin{figure}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{
...
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Table reference
I wrote a long table with a label in a tex file and \input it into my main tex file. The reference in the main tex file to the table, however, does not show the numbering of the table but the one of ...
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How to ensure that 2 couples of figures are on 2 facing pages?
I would like to reproduce the following layout with two figures on one
page and two others on the facing pages.
I would like the first couple to be on an even-numbered page and the
second on an ...
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Subfloat with subcaption package: Missing number, treated as zero
I want to make a figure consisting of two subfigures. Having read the Wikipedia subentry on subfloats, I tried to follow it exactly, so I did not use the subfig or subfigure package, only the caption ...
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Hypcap not working with custom figure environment
I'm trying to use caption with hypcap=true so that cross-reference hyperlinks will go to the figure instead of the figure caption. However, I'm using a multicol environment with a custom figure ...
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2answers
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Make all figures and tables framed by default? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Rounded corner colored box around figure
I'm interested in having all of my \begin{figure} and \begin{table} environments automatically get framed. Is there any way to ...
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How to make equations, figures and theorems use the same numbering scheme
It was asked a while ago how to make equation use the same counter as a theorem for example and one solution was to make the theorem counter use the equation instead by using
...
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Undefined reference: autoref points to section instead of figure or table
Here is a minimum working example
(an image 'test.png' needs to be in the working directory. I used this one.)
% Created 2011-05-23 Mon 15:21
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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Make tikz picture floating
I'm inserting a tikz picture in my section headings with \titleformat (see this question) and I would like it to not affect the spaces in the headings. Right now, what I do is that I compensate the ...
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2answers
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Table, Figure, and Listing prefixes
Background
Using LyX and KOMA Script to author a technical manual.
Problem
The documents are strewn with the following references:
\ref{fig:Example-Database-Type}
When converted to PDF, this ...
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Ignore figure for list of figures
I'd like to include some figures in my LaTeX document just like every other figure but don't have exactly these figures included in the list of figures.
Since I couldn't find a solution I have to ask ...
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1answer
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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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Tables as PDF images
Due to time constraints I'm considering cheating a little and importing some tables I've created in Excel into my latex document. I realise I can do this quite nicely as a 'figure' using something ...
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Table in LaTeX appearing in middle of next page
I've inserted a table in my LaTeX document and have used \center to horizontally align it to the centre of the page. However, it's appearing a page after where it should, is both horizontally and ...
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Subfigures placed horizontally
I want to place two or more figures on top of the two-column page next to each other (horizontally). However, for some reason I can't do this. This is the code that I use, it puts the second figure in ...
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How to use psfrag command to replace the text in EPS exported from AutoCAD? [closed]
The usage of \psfrag package is easy. But I tried several times, the text in EPS has nothing changed.
I wonder if there is anything I should pay more attention during the export process of AutoCAD ?
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Figure and table side-by-side in subfloats
A very similar question has been asked before:
Table and Figure side-by-side with independent captions
I'm trying to accomplish this, but while using the subfig package. The image below depicts ...
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Unusual graphics and caption placement
Here is a picture from an Oxford University Press publication, showing two images a small one at the left and a larger one at the right. The unusual part is that the caption of the right image is also ...
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Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?
I have the following towards the end of an article. The bibliography is short (4 entries).
What's happening is that on the very last page of document I get the chart and immediately afterwards the ...
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Photograph credits in LaTeX
Is there any convenient package/way to link photograph credits with a figure, and then generate a kind of \listoffigures?
Have you any other solution than generating the .lof temporary file, and ...
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2answers
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Find optimal figure size to fit two images on one page
I often encounter a situation where I would like to fit two or three figures on one page.
I define my figures as follows:
\begin{figure}[htpb]
\centering
...
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How to 3D rotate figures in display
I have a bunch of 2D figures which I like to use latex to display them in a row (side by side). Since the number of the figures is a lot I cannot show them all horizontally. For this I would like to ...
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Formatting floats differently based on placement
I'm interested in changing how floats are formatted depending on whether they are placed at the top, bottom, or middle of a page, or on a float page. One package I am aware of that does something like ...
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3answers
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How to include verbatim in a figure caption?
I would like to include verbatim in a caption of a figure. I only want part of it to be verbatim, not the entire caption. The simple approach does not work because verbatim is not allowed in arguments ...
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Table/Figure Layout
I'm interested in good practice for table (tabular) and figure layout, especially in good references. What do typographers have to say about this. Please provide references if you can.
To focus the ...
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Tables do not align side by side
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\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.5\linewidth}%\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
& One & Twp & Three \\
...
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How to make a wrapper for the figure and table environments.
I am familiar with the newenvironment command, but I was wondering, how do I carry on the parameters that are used between [ ], i.e [bht!]?
I want to make a newfig and a newtab environment that will ...
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Putting in MATLAB codes in a box as figures?
how do I put MATLAB codes in a box or deal with them as if they are figures? Is there a way to do it within LaTeX itself? I am currently using the verbatim environment to present my codes and to be ...
