Btukfyl

I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:

begin{figure}[ht]

begin{center}

advanceleftskip-3cm

advancerightskip-3cm

includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,scale=0.6]{slike/visina8}

caption{}

label{visina8}

end{center}end{figure}

to place my figures. How can I tell latex I REALLY want the figure in that specific place, no matter how much whitespace will be left?

The short answer: use the “float” package and then the [H] option for your figure.

usepackage{float}



...



begin{figure}[H]

centering

includegraphics{slike/visina8}

caption{Write some caption here}label{visina8}

end{figure}

The longer answer: The default behaviour of figures is to float, so that LaTeX can find the best way to arrange them in your document and make it look better. If you have a look, this is how books are often typeset. So, usually the best thing to do is just to let LaTeX do its work and don't try to force the placement of figures at specific locations. This also means that you should avoid using phrases such as “in the following figure:”, which requires the figure to be set a specific location, and use “in Figure~ref{..}“ instead, taking advantage of LaTeX's cross-references.

If for some reason you really want some particular figure to be placed “HERE”, and not where LaTeX wants to put it, then use the [H] option of the “float” package which basically turns the floating figure into a regular non-float.

Also note that, if you don't want to add a caption to your figure, then you don't need to use the figure environment at all! You can use the includegraphics command anywhere in your document to insert an image.

do not use a floating environment if you do not want it float.

usepackage{caption}

...

noindent%

begin{minipage}{linewidth}% to keep image and caption on one page

makebox[linewidth]{%        to center the image

  includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,scale=0.6]{slike/visina8}}

captionof{figure}{...}label{visina8}%      only if needed  

end{minipage}

or

begin{center}

  includegraphics[...]{slike/visina8}}

captionof{figure}{...}label{visina8}%      only if needed  

end{center}

You can now use the adjustbox package to turn your boxed stuff into a non-floating float replacement using the nofloat=<type> key. Caption and label can be added by own keys, before the nofloat. For centering the center key can be used. To add the vertical space use the vspace key. This solution has the benefit, that you can also use all the many other features of adjustbox to modify the content (min/max scaling, framing, etc.)

Note that if the figure content is just a single image you can just use the same keys on adjustbox and get a one-liner. If all you want is a tabular then there is the tabular key for {adjustbox}.

If you later want to change it to a real float just turn nofloat to float and remove the vspace key. adjustbox places the caption on top for tables and on bottom for figures. This can be changed by using the keys captionbelow or captionabove instead of caption.

See the adjustox manual for all options.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{blindtext}% for example text here only

usepackage{adjustbox}

begin{document}

blindtext



begin{adjustbox}{center,caption={some caption},label={somelabel},nofloat=figure,vspace=bigskipamount}

% maybe other stuff

includegraphics[width=textwidth]{example-image}% example only, could also be adjustimage

% maybe other stuff

end{adjustbox}



blindtext



% For simple images, a one liner is enough

adjustimage{width=textwidth,center,caption={some caption},label={somelabel},nofloat=figure,vspace=bigskipamount}{example-image}



blindtext





begin{adjustbox}{center,caption={some caption},label={somelabel},nofloat=table,vspace=bigskipamount}

% maybe other stuff

begin{tabular}{lll}

 some & tabular & is\

 also & possible & with this \

end{tabular}

% maybe other stuff

end{adjustbox}



blindtext



% For just a tabular:

begin{adjustbox}{tabular=lll,center,caption={some caption},label={somelabel},nofloat=table,vspace=bigskipamount}

 some & tabular & is\

 also & possible & with this \

end{adjustbox}



blindtext

end{document}

Part of the result: