Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Yipes! pdflatex command placing graphs in wrong place

[Michael_590]

Doxygen can be setup to produce HTML reports and LaTeX reports because Doxygen commands are embedded in computer source code. It creates documentation of computer progams. The two types of reports produced should be identical except being in different formats (HTML versus LaTeX).

I've been able to produce the HTML reports with graphs appearing in the right place. By right place, I mean graphs appear directly under the Doxygen text referencing them.

But, with the latex file version of the report, I run the "pdflatex" against them to produce a PDF report. The problem is the graphs in this PDF report usually appear much later in the report than the text referencing them. This is very sloppy!

I can't change the text referencing the graphs because Doxygen produces the text.

Question: Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this problem. (I find that questions such as this are too difficult for the general Doxygen community.)

Thank you,

[Johannes_B]

This behaviour isn't sloppy at all, this is bu design. It is called floating behaviour and makes texts more easy to read and more efficient.

You can prevent that by not using a figure environment and instead using a minipage to put the figure and the caption (using \captioof{figure}{Your caption}).

As i recall from your previous thread DOXygen uses package float along with the H option to prevent floating.

[Michael_590]

You can prevent that by not using a figure environment and instead using a minipage to put the figure and the caption (using \captioof{figure}{Your caption}).

How do I center "Your caption."

Thank you,

[Michael_590]

instead using a minipage to put the figure and the caption (using \captioof{figure}{Your caption}).

So, how do I incorporate your code: \captioof{figure}{Your caption}

into the following:

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\begin{minipage}[position]{width}
  text
\end{minipage}

using a pdf figure called xyz_453 and caption saying "this is my caption."

Thanks,

[Johannes_B]

I made a typing mistake above, please note that the command is named captionof.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\bigbreak

\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
	\begin{center}
		\rule{5cm}{4cm}
		\captionof{figure}{this is my caption}
	\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

[Michael_590]

I made a typing mistake above, please note that the command is named captionof.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\bigbreak

\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
	\begin{center}
		\rule{5cm}{4cm}
		\captionof{figure}{this is my caption}
	\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

When I put that into the file (a few times), I get:

!LaTeX Error: \begin{minipage} on input line ... ended by \end{document}.

!Emergency stop.

a Fatal error occured no output PDF File produced.

[Johannes_B]

Might be; as you can see, my code is correct. So i guess somewhere in the conversion process something went crazy. Best way to find the cause is to prepare a minimal working example and share it with us.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

When I put that into the file (a few times), I get:

!LaTeX Error: \begin{minipage} on intput line ... ended by \end{document}.

This looks like you forgot to insert \end{minipage}at one place.

Stefan

[Michael_590]

All the "\begin{minipage}" had a corresponding "\end{minipage}".

With the Doxygen output, I went back and replaced only one figure from:

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My caption for the figure is this.
\nopagebreak
\begin{figure}[H]
\leavevmode
\includegraphics[width=200pt]{classone_0_0two_three_1_1graph}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

to the following:

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\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
   \begin{center}
       \rule{5cm}{4cm}
          \captionof{classone_0_0two_three_1_1graph}
          {My caption for the figure is this.}
    \end{center}
\end{minipage}

The resulting PDF file had a completely black figure with a right adjusted caption something like "classone_0_0two_three_1_1graphMycaption", but with the underscores gone and the numbers converted to subscripts. The caption fell off the right side of the page. The figure should have had boxes and arrows.

Thank you,

[Michael_590]

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