how to control placement of floats

how to control placement of floats

[Paul Tremblay]

The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most
basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page.

How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a
particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if
I want to center my figures.

Thanks

Paul


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Re: how to control placement of floats

[Hans Hagen]

Paul Tremblay wrote:
> The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most
> basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page.
> 
> How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a
> particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if
> I want to center my figures.

see details.pdf

Hans

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Re: how to control placement of floats

[Paul Tremblay]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:24:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> 
> Paul Tremblay wrote:
> >The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most
> >basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page.
> >
> >How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a
> >particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if
> >I want to center my figures.
> 
> see details.pdf
> 

I couldn't figure out how to do what I want from this document, which
is, very detailed. (Hence: details.pdf!) Let me ask more specific
questions:

1. In order to control the placement of a float better, do I need to use

   \setupfloat[figure]
   \setupfloat[table]
   % etc

   ?

2. I want to place a table or a figure on a page. I want to move it,
say, 10 cm from the left margin. How do I do this? 

3. I want to create extra white space before and after the float. How
do I do this? 

4. Sometimes I want the text to flow around the float, and sometimes I
don't. How do I do this?

Thanks

Paul

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Re: how to control placement of floats

[Paul Tremblay]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:24:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> 
> Paul Tremblay wrote:
> >The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most
> >basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page.
> >
> >How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a
> >particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if
> >I want to center my figures.
> 
> see details.pdf

This is the best I can come up with. This seems like a complete
hack. For one thing, the caption does not move with the graphic.

\placefigure
  [here]{Portrait of Thoreau}{\setlayer[graphics][hoffset=1in,
voffset=1in]{\externalfigure[thoreau ref]}}

Paul


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