Ling-TeX: sidewaystable placement

[Smit, N.]

LS,

Not strictly speaking a linguistics-related problem:

I have a sidewaystable float that I want to appear at or close to the place where I inserted it. It's not particularly large, but for some reason it keeps ending up on a separate floats page towards the end of the document. Issuing a [!h] placement option does not help.

Does anyone have any idea what causes this behaviour, and how I can get my table to appear where I want it? I never had this problem with non-rotated floats, but I can't find information about this in the documentation.

thanks,
Niels

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Niels Smit
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication

Faculty of Humanities, dept. of theoretical linguistics
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[Christos Vlachos]

Post by Smit, N.
LS,
I have a sidewaystable float that I want to appear at or close to
the place where I inserted it. It's not particularly large, but for
some reason it keeps ending up on a separate floats page towards the
end of the document. Issuing a [!h] placement option does not help.

Roughly speaking, TeX / LaTeX tries to find the best position to place
floats by always respecting its page braking rules. So the [!h] option
does not literally do what it is supposed to do.

Post by Smit, N.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this behaviour, and how I can
get my table to appear where I want it? I never had this problem
with non-rotated floats, but I can't find information about this in
the documentation.

Well, in LaTeX I always use the float package (it is in the standard
installation), with the option [H] and I never had any problems. Have
you tried it?

Best,
Christos

[Smit, N.]

Hey Christos,

Works like a charm. Thanks!

Niels



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Subject: Re: Ling-TeX: sidewaystable placement

Post by Smit, N.
LS,
I have a sidewaystable float that I want to appear at or close to the
place where I inserted it. It's not particularly large, but for some
reason it keeps ending up on a separate floats page towards the end of
the document. Issuing a [!h] placement option does not help.

Roughly speaking, TeX / LaTeX tries to find the best position to place floats by always respecting its page braking rules. So the [!h] option does not literally do what it is supposed to do.

Post by Smit, N.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this behaviour, and how I can
get my table to appear where I want it? I never had this problem with
non-rotated floats, but I can't find information about this in the
documentation.

Well, in LaTeX I always use the float package (it is in the standard installation), with the option [H] and I never had any problems. Have you tried it?

Best,
Christos