Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Position of Table within the Text

[pape_4]

Hello I am new to the world of LaTeX! Would like your help for a problem I have! I place the table between the text, but when I compile, the table is in another position!Any idea what's going on?

Thank you1

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

tables are intended to float to good positions in the text, for optimal page breaking. This is automatically done by LaTeX and a great help when writing very big documents, such as books.

New users often wonder, especially when writing small documents and when they are used to word processor software, which places a table or figure exactly where it's written, no matter if half of the page would remain empty because it doesn't fit to the page and goes to the next one.

Well, I guess you use a table environment. So start it this way, for most relaxed positioning:

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\begin{table}[!htbp]

or use the float package and the H option:

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\usepackage{float}% in the preamble
...
\begin{table}[H]

Or don't use a table environment at all, tabular itself would already work. If you need numbering and a caption, you could do this with \captionof of the caption package.

Stefan

[pape_4]

Thanks a lot my friend!

[localghost]

[…] or use the float package and the H option:

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\usepackage{float}% in the preamble
...
\begin{table}[H]

[…]

Putting a table into a float environment and then prevent this environment from floating somehow doesn't make sense to me. I'd prefer one of the given alternatives and drop this option completely.

[pape_4]

Hmm i think that i have the same problem with figures

[localghost]

Hmm i think that i have the same problem with figures :?

And it has exactly the same solution(s) as proposed by Stefan.

[pape_4]

could you tell me what changes should i do in my code please?

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\begin{table}[h]
{renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1/3}
\footnotesize
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\textbf{epoch} &\multicolumn{2}{|c|){first}....\\
\hline

1&.. &.. &.. &..& & &
2&.. &.. &.. &..& & &
.
.
.
50&
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}

[sommerfee]

Since you don't use \caption, and don't want your table to float around, you can simple drop the table environment.