One thing I really often struggle with when writing a latex document (and I belive a lot of people are in the same case) is float placement.
In particular, I often find myself with a figure or table located several pages away from the place where ther were referenced.
As I understand it, the way latex choses where to put a float is by trying to minimize the "badness", which is a numeric value used to characterize how bad a certain placement would be.
And in this regard, I think we can agree that placing a figure several pages away from the place where it is needed is pretty bad.
Therefore, is there a way to increase the badness of this when I need to do so ?
To be more specific, I see two possible kinds of badness :
- the vertical distance between the paragraph where it is referenced and the float
- The presence of page breaks between these two.
Alternatively, how could it be implemented, or even, would this be the right way to approach this problem ?
