Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Float placement

[kotoko]

Hi!

I'm trying to place a table at the beginning of a chapter and having some troubles with it. I think it's because the chapter is composed only of the table (it's a timeline with the picture of the work in each time).

I tried the usual [h] [t] and even [ht!] and [H].

I ran out of ideas

[gmedina]

Hi,

since you don't want the table to float, then one possible solution would be to build your table without using the table environment and to use the \captionof command (provided by the caption package) to assign the caption, if needed. A little example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just to generate some text

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test chapter}

{%
\centering
\begin{tabular}{p{.6\textwidth}}
  \hline\lipsum[1] \\\hline
\end{tabular}
\captionof{table}{Test table}
\label{tab:test}
}

\end{document}

[localghost]

I see no problem even with a float object.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \chapter{Dummy chapter}

    \begin{table}[!ht]
      \centering
      \begin{tabular}{p{.75\textwidth}}\hline
        \blindtext \\ \hline
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
    \end{table}

    \blindtext
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten