Re: Latex image placement (...again. H vs. h!)

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Was just rediscovering how to properly get floats to drop in where I
> want them in LaTeX export (right where I say vs. where LaTeX thinks is
> convenient). I knew I'd posted on this about a year ago and was trying
> to search for the thread. In the process, I came across this from the
> manual [1]:
>
> ,---
> | To modify the placement option of the floating environment,
> | add something like ‘placement=[h!]’ to the attributes.
> `---
>
> Now, I'm not sure what all the options are, but this didn't work for
> me. Only [H] properly dropped my floats in where I wanted them. Is
> there a reason for this? In looking in wikibooks, they seem to
> indicate that there are a few variants on the "here" option: [2]
>
> ,---
> | h: Place the float here, i.e., approximately at the same point it occurs
> | in the source text (however, not exactly at the spot)
> |
> | !: Override internal parameters Latex uses for determining "good"
> float positions.
> |
> | H: Places the float at precisely the location in the LaTeX code.
> | Requires the float package,[1] e.g., \usepackage{float}.
> | This is somewhat equivalent to h!.
> `---
>
> So, does my need for [H] mean that LaTeX just really, really, really
> wanted to space my images differently than I wanted? It does seem like
> h! *should* work based on the wikibooks description, but it didn't. Is
> [H] the only absolutely positive way to make sure floats are right
> where you want them based on the surrounding text?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> ---
> [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Images-in-LaTeX-export.html
> [2] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions
>
>

Hi John,

I think of [h!] as "try really hard to place the float here" and [H] as
"place the float here regardless of the consequences."

All the best,
Tom
-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com