CERN Accelerating science

Floats

A new command and a new ``float specifier'' will allow you more control over LaTeX's float placement algorithm.

\suppressfloats[placement]

This command stops any further floating environments from being placed on the current page. The optional argument placement can be either t or b (not both), and in this case the restriction applies only to putting further floats at the top or at the bottom.

 float placement specifier:   !

This can be used, along with at least one of h, t, b and p, in the float placement optional argument.

If a ! is present then, just for this particular float, whenever it is processed by the float mechanism the following are ignored:

• all restrictions on the number of floats which can appear;
• all explicit restrictions on the amount of space on a text page which may be occupied by floats or must be occupied by text.

Note that its presence has no effect on the production of float pages.

A ! placement specifier overrides the effect of any \suppressfloats command for this particular float.