LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ [SOLVED] Help on figure environment.

[cryptod]

Hi,
I have a document written as follow:
...
some text..
figure...
some text2..
figure2...

When i compile the document, i get:
some text..
some text2..
figure...
figure2...
i know that i got this because the space after my text can't hold the figure, but i dont want it to be filled with the other text, i just need it blank!
i messed up with the [htp] options, but il doesn't really help. The order in my document is really important, i want figure1 to figure directly after the text1.

How can i force LaTeX to really use the [h] option?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the float package:

\usepackage{float}
\begin{figure}[H]
...
\end{figure}

Alternatively, what I would prefer, you could remove the figure environment around the object. Then it doesn't float, and if you want a caption and an entry in the list of figures you could use \captionof from the caption package:

\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption}
...
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics{...}% whatever ...
  \captionof{figure}{description}\label{fig:test}
\end{center}

For more options and features have a look at the caption documentation.

Similare questions were posted to this forum before, the forum search function would lead you to more examples.

Stefan

[cryptod]

Thanks for the quick answer, i used the caption package and it worked.