General ⇒ Getting figure to definitely appear just after \item

[yogester]

I have been playing around trying to get this graphic to appear just after the "3." but it always insists on running before it.

Can anyone suggest a solution? Floating graphics have always been a bug bear for me! They never seem to go where I want them to!

Here is the output:-



Here is the code:-

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\pagebreak

\item

\begin{figure}[htp!]
\centering
\epsfig{file=eng210graph.eps,width=0.9\linewidth,clip=}
\caption{Temperature Gradient Diagram of Proposed Spray Chiller}
\end{figure}


\item

\begin{align*}
	LMTD &= \dfrac{\theta_i - \theta_o}{ln \left(\tfrac{\theta_i}{\theta_o}\right)} \nonumber \\
	&= \dfrac{(22 + 10) - (7-10)}{ln \left(\tfrac{32}{17}\right)} \nonumber \\
	&= 23.7 \; ^\circ C \nonumber
\end{align*}

Thanks so much guys!!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi yogester,

you don't need to use the figure environment if the graphic is not intended to float, though it's possible to use figure. Perhaps have a look at Prevent floating of figures or tables, there are some possible solutions explained.
One possibility is using the float package:

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

Another possibility is not to use figure, just \includegraphics and \captionof from the caption package:

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\usepackage{caption}
...
\item \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{eng210graph.eps}
\captionof{figure}{Temperature Gradient Diagram of Proposed Spray Chiller}

The caption package is very useful to customize your captions. Just to get an impression try

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

Stefan

[yogester]

Thanks Stefan!

I ended up just putting a $\;$ after the 3. and that seemed to make the graph stay where I wanted it to be. Again, another naughty LaTeX hack.....

I wanted to use the figure environment because I wanted the captions. Didn't know about the ability to to do \captionof - very cool! Thanks for the tip!

Andrew