Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ table* placement and background picture

[Hena]

Hi,

I'm trying to do a document with two column layout. I've encountered two problems which googling doesn't seem to give me an answer to so decided to join here and ask .

1. table* I have a table with [p] positioning. However it seems to go to the end of the document instead of being near I put the table. Any ideas on how to fix it?

2. Table background. Is there a way to insert a picture at the background of the table. I've found wallpaper and eso-pic modules, but neither helps on this. As a side note I can't get them to work properly either (I managed to get a background pic which didn't fill the entire page, but left a bit from down and right side empty).

Any help with these would be greatly appreciated. On positive side I managed to find an answer here to place table* to the bottom of page, yey!

[5gon12eder]

The "p" tells LaTeX to collect the float and put it together with others on a special floats-page once it has enough. If you want the table near to the corresponding text, you'll probably want something like "t" ("on top of a page as soon as feasible") or even "h" ("here, if this looks acceptable").

Unfortunately, I don't know a solution for your second problem.

[Hena]

So it doesn't try to put p just after it was used, but collect enough floats to fill entire page. Ok, that would explain it then. Thanks.