General ⇒ Aligning Algorithm

[dragonfly]

Hey guys,
I was wondering, is there a way to align an algorithm in latex? For example I want an algorithm to stay in the certain section of the paper, and not just randomly jump to pages. Is there a way to do it?

[Ted]

I was wondering, is there a way to align an algorithm in latex? For example I want an algorithm to stay in the certain section of the paper, and not just randomly jump to pages. Is there a way to do it?

See Section 3.4.1 (Placement of Algorithms) of the documentation (linked from here).

One important fact that many users may not have noticed is that the algorithm
environment is actually built with the float package and float, in turn, uses
David Carlisle’s here style option. This means that the floats generated by the
algorithm environment accept a special option, namely, [H], with a capital ‘H’,
instead of the usual ‘h’ offered by plain LaTeX.

This option works as a stronger request of "please put the float here": instead
of just a suggestion for LaTeX, it actually means “put this float HERE”, which
is something desired by many. The two algorithms typeset in this document use
this option.

Warning. You can’t use the ‘H’ positioning option together with the usual ‘h’
(for “here”), ‘b’ (for “bottom”) etc. This is a limitation (as far as I know) of
the float.sty package.

So I think you want...

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\begin{algorithm}[H]
%...
\end{algorithm}