General ⇒ \floatingtable near \tableofcontents

[Marek]

The last paragraph of the last \section of my text is needed to refer to the floating table wrapped by the text (I use \floatingtable from package "floatflt"). Compilation of the document turns out the table inserted in the page of table of contents and creates two columns on this page: first one contains the table, the second one is for table of contents.
I tried to put "\\" after \end{floatingtable} but it had generated errors. Also the structures:
...\end{floatingtable}
\newpage
\tableofcontents...

and

...\end{floatingtable}
space mark
\\
\tableofcontents...
do not work. How to force the table of contents would have nothing to do with this table?

[gmedina]

Try using \clearpage or \cleardoublepage

[Marek]

Thank you, but no result (only the column with the table and column with table of contents replaced each other).

[gmedina]

Can you please post a minimal working example showing this problem?

[Marek]

Minimal Working Example:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn,oneside,dvips]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{floatflt}
%
\title{Minimal working example}
\author{My name}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{To create table of contents}
Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1. Section 1.
\section{To create table of contents}
Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2. Section 2.
\section{To create table of contents}
Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3 \ref{tab:tab}. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3. Section 3.
\begin{floatingtable}{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}\hline\hline
\textbf{ABC} & \textbf{BCD [eV]} \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
C-H & 4,3 \\ \hline
C-C & 3,6 \\ \hline
C=C & 6,3 \\ \hline
C-O & 3,6 \\ \hline
O-H & 4,8 \\ [0.5ex]
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{\textsl{The table}}
\label{tab:tab}
\end{floatingtable}
%
\tableofcontents
%
\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
In this example puttnig the table's code somewhere earlier leads to placing the table into the right paragraph but in the real text putting the code of the table in the beginning of the paragraph which refers to it leads to the same result as placing it in the end of the paragraph.

[balf]

Did you try to use the wrapfig package instead? Also, another, less known, package that can be used if you don't need to caption your table (it is no more floating) is insbox, a generic macro.

B.A.

[gmedina]

I did some tests with your code and floatflt doe not behave very well (and reading the documentation, I noticed that it is very "old" (apparently no changes since 1998)). As balf suggests, you might consider using the wrapfig package.

[Marek]

Thank you very much. I have replaced floatflt by wrapfig. It seems to work correct.
By the way, I like LaTeX very much but I have used it up to this time only occasionally and I am not very fluent in advanced usage but I think this forum and your advices are very, very, very helpful. Thank you for it.
M.P.