Hi Andrea,<br><br>I&#39;m inclined to agree with Tom - there is no default that will work in all instances.  That being said, you can use an #ATTR_LATEX line to modify the placement for each image - see here:  <a href="http://orgmode.org/org.html#Images-in-LaTeX-export">http://orgmode.org/org.html#Images-in-LaTeX-export</a><br>
<br>Alternatively, (and this is very much a hack, which I can&#39;t guarantee will work) you could make the org-mode default behaviour be [ptb] by replacing the =(floatp &quot;[htb]&quot;)= line with =(floatp &quot;[ptb]&quot;)= in the =org-export-latex-format-image= function definition in the file org/lisp/org-latex.el ... you would have to do something similar to the =org-export-latex-tables= function for tables.<br>
<br>HTH,<br>Chris<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Thomas S. Dye <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tsd@tsdye.com">tsd@tsdye.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Andrea,<br>
<br>
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&#39;t float to the end and take the other figures with them.<br>

<br>
All the best,<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:<br>
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I could not understand why on earth my pdf had all the images after the<br>
whole document.<br>
Then I found this:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/float_hint.html" target="_blank">http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/float_hint.html</a><br>
<br>
and found out that the default for a figure was<br>
\begin{figure}[ptb]<br>
<br>
while in the generated latex file from org I had<br>
\begin{figure}[htb]<br>
<br>
So I changed to the default and now it works fine...<br>
Isn&#39;t that default maybe a bit dangerous?<br>
<br>
The fact is that if the first image doesn&#39;t fit &quot;here&quot; it will be<br>
printed late and all the others after.<br>
<br>
I might also just use the latex code here for these things, I don&#39;t care<br>
to export to other formats, it&#39;s just nicer to look if it&#39;s in org syntax<br>
<br>
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