[texhax] positioning of floats

[Lars Madsen]

debian wrote:
> Please,
> 
> I am using texlive 2008, trying to \includegraphics lots of musical snippets.
> 
> Essentially my code consists of;
> 
> fig 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..... 15 clearpage
> 
> This is working ok, but latex seems to always print the figures in exactly
> that sequence.
> 
> I was hoping that it might do things like:
> 
> fig 3, 1, 5, 4, 13, ......
> 
> so as to maximise the use of paper.
> 
> Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or doing something else wrong.
> 
> Can latex look on up its queque of floats and decide "ah, I can fit
> number 12 in here" ?
> 
> Joe
> 
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LaTeX puts each float type in order, for a reader, if would be odd to 
find figure 5 right after figure 12.



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