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From: golding@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Andy Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX figures - how to force position ? (not just [h])
Keywords: latex figure positioning position
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.204651.26030@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 90 20:46:51 GMT
References: <2814@cernvax.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <2814@cernvax.UUCP> belk@cernvax.UUCP (andrew belk) writes:
>I have a document (report style) where I want the figures to appear with
>the associated text. Unfortunately, I don't have enough text for LaTeX's
>taste, and despite using \begin{figure}[h], it insists on gradually
>placing them further and further nearer the end of the section as it goes.
>Of course, I end up with them all at the end,

It sounds like LaTeX is moving the figures to
avoid filling up "too much" of the page with figures
(rather than text).  To change its threshold, you can say

	\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.40}

This makes it so that "floats" can occupy up to 40% of
the page at the top.  There is a corresponding
\bottomfraction parameter.

Andy