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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com>,
	John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Failure to display more than 18 images with captions
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:55:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737kfw5fl.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKchnZNCq2zcvbRZsq_hK0a6gFEN_gpWj5jMMTJmSChgg5jWAQ@mail.gmail.com> (William Henney's message of "Sat, 1 Oct 2016 23:25:09 -0500")

Hello,

William Henney <whenney@gmail.com> writes:

> I think Jean Louis is right: it _is_ an org issue.   The problem is that
> the default value of org-latex-default-figure-position is "htb", which is a
> very bad idea.  The string always needs to contain a "p" in it somewhere,
> otherwise latex will never be able to find a solution for figure placement
> in cases with many floats and little or no text.
>
> Fuller explanation: The position specifiers "h" (here), "t" (top), and "b"
> (bottom) are all for placing floats on a page that has some "normal" text
> on.  For all 3 cases, there is a minimum fraction of the page that must be
> occupied by text (controlled by the parameter \textfraction, which by
> default is 0.2).  To get pages that are entirely occupied by floats, you
> need to use the specifier "p" (page).  So, by just using "htb" you are
> giving latex a set of requirements that are impossible to satisfy if there
> are many floats and no text.  Hence the problem with "Too many unprocessed
> floats".  I would recommend that the default be "htbp" instead.

Fair enough. I changed the default value for the variable.

Thank you for the explanation.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-02  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-01  7:19 Failure to display more than 18 images with captions Jean Louis
2016-10-01 10:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-10-01 10:44   ` Jean Louis
2016-10-01 14:26 ` John Kitchin
2016-10-01 14:56   ` Jean Louis
2016-10-01 17:53     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-10-01 18:04       ` John Kitchin
2016-10-01 18:13       ` Jean Louis
2016-10-02  4:25         ` William Henney
2016-10-02  7:55           ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-10-03  0:38           ` John Kitchin

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