Talk:LaTeX/Floats, Figures and Captions
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[edit] Text overlapping figures
Can we put a section about how to have a transparent figure legend placed over a full page picture, as this is something I really want to be able to do.
[edit] Errors in Wrapping figures
I modified Andy Robert's wrapping.tex according to instructions on additional parameters of wrapping and it did not work. The image was not wrapped, but sticked out of page. I was using latex + dvipdf because pdflatex had problems with .eps file.
If these examples do not work, perhaps, we should remove them? --Derbeth talk 20:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- yes, the example you tried didn't work. Now I have fixed everything, improving the article. It should be fine now Alessio Damato 15:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] PDF's and .tex sources
I removed mention of .tex sources at the end of this chapter. I think that everything has already been used here, but if you want to link them again, see http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial6.html. --Derbeth talk 20:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Aligning Captions
The captions under figures always are in the centre of the page, regardless of where the figure is. How can this be changed? --Munchkinguy 03:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
- what do you mean exactly? do you want to change the position or the alignment of the captions?? Alessio Damato 15:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Footnotes in Floats
Quite often one (me as well) would like to have footnotes in captions or in the body of a table. For example to explain the variables or the source of the information.
Two information I've found are: for tables: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=footintab for captions: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt
The general (but for some reason disliked) solution is to put everything in a minipage. Should we add this to the page?
[edit] placeins
We should mention the package placeins [1] somewhere (it "Defines a \FloatBarrier command, beyond which floats may not pass; useful, for example, to ensure all floats for a section appear before the next \section command.")
[edit] inside floats, \centering is better than \begin{center} ... \end{center}
We should mention that somewhere. It's documented at, e.g., [2]: "with the combination of figure and center you get a doublespacing before and after, whereas the combination of figure and \centering only gives you the spacing from figure."
[edit] p placement specifier
[3]: "...The placement specifier p lets the figure take up a full page without waiting until the end of the chapter". Controlling placement of full-page figures is a very annoying problem for the unexperienced users. Clear explanation of [p] in this document would be very useful.
