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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Automating image positioning


When there's not enough free space on a page when you include an image, that image will go to the next page. This will leave white space at the end of the page. You could manually move some text to compensate. But imagine having a large document with many images; manually moving images to balance page breaks could cause a headache. Fortunately, LaTeX provides an automatism for us.

How to do it...

This is a very common way of including images as figures:

  1. Use a figure environment.

  2. Center the content, if desired.

  3. Include the image.

  4. Add a caption.

  5. Add a label for cross-referencing.

A typical command sequence is as follows:

\begin{figure}[htbp!]
  \centering
  \includegraphics{filename}
  \caption{Some text}
  \label{fig:name}
\end{figure}

In the document, you can refer to the figure number by using the \label{fig:name} command.

How it works...

The automatism is called floating, and it works for images; that means figures and tables. A figure environment lets its content float...

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