On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: > Peace, > > Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually > want it to be correctly placed in the text?
Yes. > I tried to leave all floats at default, and when the pdf was created, there > were floats in the middle of itemize lists, on the wrong pages and even in > the wrong order... totally erratic... > > I tried a number of the options associated with float placement. But the > only one that was correct, mostly, was to force it to be 'here definitely'. > > Why is the default placement so bad? Any ideas as to why the default is so > bad? Suggestions? The default placement is typically not that bad as long as there is a sufficient amount of "regular" text in the documnet. Andre'
