> -----Original Message----- > From: Holger Zebner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:56 PM > To: Reuter, Joseph; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: placement of figures/floats > > > > > > how do I place figures which are included in floats exactly > > > where they > > > should be in a text? > > > >"float" means you want LaTeX to move the figure to its idea > of the "best" > >location. If that is not what you want, don't use a "float"! > > I used "floats" because I want to have a caption under the > figure. If I put > some text in the caption environment outside of floats I get > the error msg: > "can't use caption outside floats". Is there a way of getting > a caption > outside of a float?
I asked the search engine at www.tug.org about captions. The packages at macros/contrib/supported/nonfloat and macros/contrib/supported/ccaption both have the capability to insert captions outside of a float. At worst, you have to insert them using ERT. Joe __________ In theory, theory and practice are the same: in practice, they're not.
