Nic's Stuff

Floats

• Standard: This floating environment causes the figure to use the whole width of the page:
  • Document layout:

    % ...
    \begin{document}
    % ...
    \begin{figure}[PLACEMENT]
    % ...
    \end{figure}
    % ...
    \end{document}
    

  • Placement:
    • h: here
    • t: Top
    • b: Bottom
    • p: On page containing floats
    • !: Force
  Placing two figures next to each other inside a single figure environment including captions printed below and labels:

  \begin{figure}[t]
  \parbox[t]{7cm}{
      \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=7cm]{figure1}
      \caption{figure 1}
      \label{fig.figure1}
  }
  \parbox[t]{7cm}{
      \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=7cm]{figure2}
      \caption{figure 2}
      \label{fig.figure2}
  }
  \end{figure}
  

• Floating: This floating environment allows text to be printed next to the figure.
  • Document layout:

    % ...
    \usepackage[OPTIONS]{floatflt}
    % ...
    \begin{document}
    % ...
    \begin{floatingfigure}[PLACEMENT]{WIDTH}
    % ...
    \end{floatingfigure}
    % ...
    \end{document}
    

  • Options:
    • rflt: Placed right in paragraph
    • lflt: Placed left in paragraph
    • vflt: Placed left on even-numbered pages and right on odd-numbered
  • Placement:
    • r: See above
    • l: See above
    • p: See above
    • v: See the vflt package option

  NOTE: Using this package, floating figures need to placed with care: They may disappear if placed too close to sectioning commands. They may overlap with list environments.

• Referring to figures is referring to captions: See Caption
• Stopping a floating environment to be moved to the end of the document

  % places all floats and starts a new page
  \clearpage
  
  % places all floats and starts a new double page
  \cleardoublepage