LaTeX forum ⇒ Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Floats in Poster

[kostis]

I'm using the poster template baposter. My poster includes figures and tables that need captions and labels. So I have to use the figure and table environments. However my figures and tables appear only if I put them raw in the source file (without \begin{figure}\end{figure}).
If I use the table or figure environment, the figure-table does not appear.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  \headerbox{Data used}{name=data,column=0,below=introduction}{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
... text here ...
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
Data-set & something  & something \\ \hline
2003     & something  & something \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\vspace{0.05em}
}

Is this caused because the figure environment does not want to be in a headerbox???
Could someone tell me why this happens or suggest another way to have captions,labels without using the figure-table environments?

If it helps this are the error messages I get:

! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... }
"C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\pgf\basiclayer\pgfbaselayers.sty This package is obsolete and no longer needed
Unused global option(s):[final].
Underfull \hbox (badness 2680) in paragraph at lines 233--233

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi kostis,

welcome to the board!

figure and table are intended to float, so they are special and cannot be used everywhere. For having captions, use a the caption (or capt-of) package. For example:

\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
...

\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
  \centering
  \captionof{table}{Your caption}
  \label{tab:name}
  \begin{tabular}
    % table content
  \end{tabular}
\end{minipage}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics{filename}
  \captionof{figure}{text}
  \label{fig:name}
\end{center}

Stefan

[sandman]

See here.

\usepackage{float}
...

\begin{figure}[H]
  \centering
  \includegraphics{slike/visina8}
  \caption{Write some caption here}\label{visina8}
\end{figure}

[Johannes_B]

You shouldn't use floating environments (figure and table) where they don't belong. Stefan was completely right in advising \captionof{type}{caption}.

The float package along with the option H is not a very good idea. If you don't want your objects to float, simply don't use floating environments.

LaTeX does a pretty good job in placing figures and if paragraphs are indicated correctly, it will do a good job. Because using the \captionof command can lead to wrong numbering. So be careful.