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From: db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Figure placement
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:58:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:30:02 +0200, Dr Engelbert Buxbaum wrote:

> In article <vetarg$38b6q$1@dont-email.me>, dieterhansbritz@gmail.com
> says...
>> 
>> I am frustrated by figure placement. I have a figure near the top of an
>> article that, if I write \begin{figure}[!h], it gets put in the middle
>> of a sentence, but if I write \begin{figure}[!t] it naturally goes
>> above the title.
>> 
>> Is it possible to force a figure to go where I want it?
> 
> "Forcing" of floats is generally a bad idea, if you want a figure or
> table at a specific place, use the tabular or includegraphics commands
> without wrapping them into a floating environment.
> 
> I do use the placeins package to place \FloatBarriers between sections,
> this ensures that floats are placed near where they are referred to. The
> rest I leave to LaTeX.

OK, here is the template I use for figures:

\begin{figure}[!pb]%
\begin{center}
\includegraphics*[width=0.8\textwidth]{figs/.eps}
\caption{}\label{Fig:}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

What do I have to do to not wrap them in a floating
environment?

-- 
db