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From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Subject: Re: org-latex and figures
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:53:28 -1000
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To: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
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Hi Andrea,

There is no default that will work in all situations.  A default of  
[ptb] will typically generate some pages with just a figure and lots  
of white space.  I make a lot of latex documents and I find the path  
of least resistance is to use a default of [htb!] and pay attention to  
the large figures so they don't float to the end and take the other  
figures with them.

All the best,
Tom

On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:

> I could not understand why on earth my pdf had all the images after  
> the
> whole document.
> Then I found this:
>
> http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/float_hint.html
>
> and found out that the default for a figure was
> \begin{figure}[ptb]
>
> while in the generated latex file from org I had
> \begin{figure}[htb]
>
> So I changed to the default and now it works fine...
> Isn't that default maybe a bit dangerous?
>
> The fact is that if the first image doesn't fit "here" it will be
> printed late and all the others after.
>
> I might also just use the latex code here for these things, I don't  
> care
> to export to other formats, it's just nicer to look if it's in org  
> syntax
>
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