From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com>
Subject: Re: Failure to display more than 18 images with captions
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:38:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r37yfert.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKchnZNCq2zcvbRZsq_hK0a6gFEN_gpWj5jMMTJmSChgg5jWAQ@mail.gmail.com>
This looks like a user configurable option, e.g.
(setq org-latex-default-figure-position "htbp")
William Henney writes:
> I think Jean Louis is right: it _is_ an org issue. The problem is that
> the default value of org-latex-default-figure-position is "htb", which is a
> very bad idea. The string always needs to contain a "p" in it somewhere,
> otherwise latex will never be able to find a solution for figure placement
> in cases with many floats and little or no text.
>
> Fuller explanation: The position specifiers "h" (here), "t" (top), and "b"
> (bottom) are all for placing floats on a page that has some "normal" text
> on. For all 3 cases, there is a minimum fraction of the page that must be
> occupied by text (controlled by the parameter \textfraction, which by
> default is 0.2). To get pages that are entirely occupied by floats, you
> need to use the specifier "p" (page). So, by just using "htb" you are
> giving latex a set of requirements that are impossible to satisfy if there
> are many floats and no text. Hence the problem with "Too many unprocessed
> floats". I would recommend that the default be "htbp" instead.
>
> Will
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com> wrote:
>
>> IMHO, the program Org Mode shall not give error when exporting PDF, or
>> it should be documented that certain number of pictures are not
>> tolerated and how to increase that number or how to avoid the problem.
>>
>> Maybe something like explained here:
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46512/too-many-unprocessed-floats
>>
>> like "morefloats" package:
>> ctan.org/pkg/morefloats
>>
>> or \extrafloats{100}
>>
>> But I did not get that working, I have simply turned off floats.
>>
>> Jean
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 07:53:59PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > It is solved for me, not solved in general as a problem in Org mode.
>> >
>> > I do not understand: which part is a problem on the Org side?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Nicolas Goaziou
>>
>>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-01 7:19 Failure to display more than 18 images with captions Jean Louis
2016-10-01 10:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-10-01 10:44 ` Jean Louis
2016-10-01 14:26 ` John Kitchin
2016-10-01 14:56 ` Jean Louis
2016-10-01 17:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-10-01 18:04 ` John Kitchin
2016-10-01 18:13 ` Jean Louis
2016-10-02 4:25 ` William Henney
2016-10-02 7:55 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-10-03 0:38 ` John Kitchin [this message]
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