[Fhsst-authors] Figure placement in LaTeX

[Sam Halliday]

hi all,

for anybody using pstricks... you should be warned that all figures should be in
the enviroment
  \begin{figure}
    pstricks jig
  \end{figure}

apparently the reason that people are not doing this is because LaTeX does not
place figures were they appear in the source.

the way to fix this is to use

  some text
  \begin{figure}[H]
    pstricks jig
  \end{figure}
  \noindent
  some more text

(thats a capital H, and you need the \noindent)

but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE only use this when it is absolutely necessary that the
figures are at that exact place relative to the text. use labels and references
where-ever possible.

cheers,
Sam
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