Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Put Float on Page where referenced or earlier

[Singularity]

Apparently I am extremely picky about figure placement, even when under severe time pressure.

In the epslatex document (p. 58, #3) I see that a float is always placed on the page where it is referenced, or a following page. I hate that. When I'm reading something, I like pictures to appear on the same page or on an earlier page, so I don't have to go searching for them.

Is there any (easy, non-time consuming) way to get floats to appear on the page where it's referenced or earlier?

Thanks.

[localghost]

The output routine is not bounded to the reference to a float. So you have to take care that your reference is not to far away from the declaration in the source. From my point of view you can't completely rule out that a float appears after a reference. You can only make provision against it by carefully organizing your source code. Packages like varioref support enhanced referencing. Appropriate placement parameters allow better control of float placement (see below). Perhaps you will find your way with this tools.

Regarding float placement some additional remarks. Due to the fact the typesetting with LaTeX is a linear process, floating environment can never appear before they are declared in the source. To minimize the "distance" between declaration in the source and appearance in the output you should start with appropriate placement parameters for floats.

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\begin{figure}[!ht]
% figure content
\end{figure}

This makes LaTeX to neglect internal restrictions and place the float as early as possible. The float will appear where declared in the source (h) or at the latest on top of the next page (t). It depends on whether there is enough space on the current page.


Thorsten