Add Text After a Second Figure [duplicate]

Question

I am simply trying to have two figures in one section on one page with text in between. In the below example the PDF result is text1, picture1, text2, text3 which is not what I intended.

Text1

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{picture1.jpg}
  \caption{A boat.}
  \label{fig:boat1}
\end{figure}

Text2

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{picture2.jpg}
  \caption{A boat.}
  \label{fig:boat1}
\end{figure}

Text3

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

As @DavidCarlisle has already pointed out in a comment, you're not using the figure environments as they were intended to be used.

Since you apparently don't want the graphs to "float" (in the LaTeX-specific sense of the word), you'd be better off encasing the \includegraphics directives in center environments.

\documentclass[demo]{article}  % remove 'demo' option in real document
\usepackage{caption}  % for \captionof macro
\usepackage{graphicx} % for \includegraphics macro
\begin{document}

Text1

\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{picture1.jpg}
  \captionof{figure}{A boat.}
  \label{fig:boat1}
\end{center}

Text2

\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{picture2.jpg}
  \captionof{figure}{Another boat.}
  \label{fig:boat2}
\end{center}

Text3

\end{document}