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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 section below them.
\begin{table}[ht]\footnotesize
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|ll|}
......
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:result}
\end{table}
\section{Section below tables}
You can use the \FloatBarrier macro from the placeins package. This prevents floats from floating across the barrier. Alternatively, you can use the section option to that package to prevent floats from leaving the section.
\usepackage[section]{placeins} and \FloatBarrier and tables are in fact above section. The side effect is that last 3 tables that have only one row each, take whole page... Do you have any idea how to avoid this?
\FloatBarrier in the places you don't want the floats to cross without using the [section] option. But without an example of what's going wrong, I can't really say.
The easiest way is to use the placeins package:
\usepackage[section]{placeins}
or you can change \begin{table}[ht] to \begin{table}[H] and add \usepackage{float} to your preamble. the H means "absolutely do not float this, and put it right here."
\input them and just move the location of the \input statement until LaTeX gives me what I want. It is suboptimal.
fixltx2e package, but that just ensures the floats go in order; it doesn't renumber them if they're out of order.
H option is pretty brute force, however, I write tech doc in latex for my company (I'm pretty happy they use it!) but I always have a ton of floats, and apparently it's too much to ask the user to turn the page to look at a table or figure. My company hates the htbp and I am forced to use H. But it does exactly what it's supposed to, and is pretty reliable, even if it leaves some suboptimal layouts.
\Makesorted from the perpage package to make sure the sequence of numbers is correct. (This info could be new since when this question was asked for all I know).
Sep 29, 2011 at 14:19
If you're using memoir, it includes functionality from placeins. It allows you, for example, to do this:
\setFloatBlockFor{section}
which is equivalent to \usepackage[section]{placeins}
The simple \clearpage command just before the new section (after the table) seems to work nicely. (in this case \clearpage does not insert an empty page)
\afterpage{...} worked OK but hid the section from the contents section of my thesis.
\section{Name1}
Stuff
\begin{table}[h]
...
\end{table}[h]
\clearpage
\section{Name2}
Stuff 2
\begin{table}[h]
...
\end{table}[h]
