General ⇒ caption placement problem

[liao0038]

Hi all, i am quite new to latex, thanks for your time to look at my problem.
I used the following code to insert a figure in my report between two paragraphs,
but this figure does not appear in the middle of the two paragraph, instead on another new page, even more, the title of the figure which is "simple delay-and-sum beamformer model" always appears at the bottom of the page, not following the figure closely,
what is wrong with it..?

{
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{figs/pdf/delay-sum.pdf}
\hspace{0.5in}
\caption{\small Simple delay-and-sum beamformeer model}
\label{fig:Delay-sum model}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
}

[sommerfee]

the title of the figure which is "simple delay-and-sum beamformer model" always appears at the bottom of the page, not following the figure closely,
what is wrong with it..?

It seems that your figure image has a lot of space at the bottom. You can check this by putting the image into a framed box:

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\fbox{\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{figs/pdf/delay-sum.pdf}}

Some nit-picking (please excuse ):

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\begin{center}

This will add additionally vertical space to your figure. So better use \centering instead of \begin{center}...\end{center}.

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\hspace{0.5in}

What's this good for?

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\caption{\small Simple delay-and-sum beamformeer model}

This will make the caption text small, but not the caption label (like "Figure 1:"). So better use \usepackage[small]{caption} or the ccaption package for that purpose. (If you are using the memoir document class or one of the KOMA-Script bundle, there are build-in commands for this.)

Axel

[liao0038]

Hi sommerfee, many thanks for your reply, it works !!