Re: org-latex and figures

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:

[...]

>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Floats are tricky in LaTeX.

agreed!

> The two most frequent problems, in my
> experience, are the "all the floats at the end" problem that bit
> Andrea and the "small float on its own page" problem.  The first of
> these comes from not including [p] and the second comes from including
> [p].  I think you have to pick your poison here--there doesn't seem to
> be a default that always works perfectly.

Yes, agreed as well other than to say that I have found [hbtp] to work
for most of my writing over the years.  I have seldom had to change from
this default.  But that could simply be a reflection of the types of
documents I work with.

Of course, as soon as you start talking about two-column formats, all of
this goes out the window! :-)

> If you want to avoid both problems, as I do, then I find the best
> default strategy to be [htb!], with [p] used for figures that are
> designed specifically to fit the whole page.  

My point was simply that mixing 'h' and 'p' is perfectly legal: they
need not be treated as mutually exclusive options!

But, in any case, having an org variable that allows setting the figure
captions is fantastic: thanks to Eric Schulte for already implementing
this!


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