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rophys wrote: I'm trying to put some figures in the right places in text but is not working.

Have you tried putting a \newpage before the figure?

-Saam

As far as I can see it \fitfigure scales the images to fit a whole page. This might not always be what one wants. Also, this can be the reason for putting the float to another position in the text.

However, if things are working for you now: never mind.

Regards

Celemens,

I had suspected so and ...

The behaviour looks expected to me. If you need the figure nearer to where you put it in the source you can add ! to the float specifier:

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
\fitfigure{sample.jpg}
\caption{The first figure's caption}
\label{fig:sample}
\end{figure}


Wonderful! It worked! I ...

Saam wrote: Thanks Clemens for the link - it was extremely helpful. I have made a MWE which is attached to this post. Obviously \rule did not work instead of figures as you need actual figures to see the behaviour. I am also attaching a simple JPG figure.

Thanks again.

-Saam

Sorry, forgot to attach them!

As I said before: a more concrete example would be helpful. But maybe Frank Mittelbach's great post about LaTeX floats can help you to understand why floating works the way it does and how you can influence it.

Regards

Thanks Clemens for the link - it was extremely helpful. I have made a MWE ...

Hi Saam,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

The figure should appear near to where you placed it in the source possibly at the top of a page (that's what you allow with [ht] ). It that is not the case please make a complete (if you do not know what that is please follow the link) for us.

Regards ...

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here. I am pretty new to LaTeX, but so far I am enjoying it. I am writing a document, which unlike manuscripts, requires to have figures and tables in the text rather than at the end. Here are the relevant(I think!) parts of the code:


\documentclass[man ...