I've a short paragraph that concludes a chapter and this paragraph includes two table floats and two figure floats. TeX spreads these out over 4 pages with too much white space. The first page has the paragraph, a lot of space, then one table; the second page has two figures (including one from an earlier paragraph), and so on.
Should I copy these out of the floats and place them manually? I've not seen this before so I don't know all my options. Rich