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From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
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Subject: Re: Floating figures (in LaTeX)
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Date: 18 Mar 91 14:45:49 GMT
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In article <9162@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes:
>In LaTeX how do you stop figures floating around apart from
>\begin{figure}[h]
>
>I want to know exactly where they appear as I use a \special to include
>graphics in the  output, but the area where I put the picture is not the
>same when I left the space for it....very annoying.
>
>Ideally I would like a macro which would also allow the special to float
>to the same page as the figure has floated to.

The whole point of the figure and table envirnments is to float their 
contents. Just leave out the \begin{figure}, \end{figure} and \caption{},
and whatever was in the environment  is placed right where you put it in
the source file. You can then add a caption if you want.

If a special is placed inside the figure environment, it should float with
everything else, although specials are special, so it depends.

Tim