Just looked up what [htb] did and will definitely try that when I'm back at work tomorrow. Though not identical, I have two other emails out to the group that would be along these lines were this to be the solution. Namely: what's the best way to pass particular options to LaTeX from org-mode?

Is there any clean way to pass some option like this with a figure or table or what have you?

I'll try this tomorrow and post back. Thanks for the help.


John

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:
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########### latex order ##############

I've inspected the generated .tex file and this shows up where expected in both picture instances:

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{/home/jwhendy/Desktop/file[1/2].pdf}
\caption{text here}
\end{figure}

I have generated a pdf from the .tex file and the same happens -- I can't figure out why it's sticking them in places where they are not called for.

Not at all an expert on this, but what if you substitute [!htb] instead of [htb] in the LaTeX and generate a PDF?  Obviously, not an org-mode solution, but does that do what you want?