I have got a multicolumn environment where I put figures into a minipage since the figure environment seems to be incompatible with multicols (at least that is what I read and indeed, putting a \begin{figure} into \begin{multicols} environment makes the illustration disappear.
Now the problem I am facing with the code below is, that, if I click on the \ref link on the bottom, the pdf reader jumps to the caption instead of the minipage resulting in the figure itself not being visible:
Does anyone have an idea how to make sure, \ref jumps to the top of the minipage environment rather than the top of the \captionof?
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{minipage}[t]{\columnwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{sketch}
\vspace*{-7mm}
\captionof{figure}{Iconic Pencil Figure~\cite{mobi_pencil_figure}}
\label{fig:background--iconic-pencil-figure}
\end{minipage}
\end{multicols}
Figure~\ref{fig:background--iconic-pencil-figure}}
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I want to insert an image on my text but the image always aligns on top of the text and not below as I wanted to. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
This is the image I want to display on the bottom
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\begin{figure}
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=8cm,height=8cm]{fdd.eps}}
\end{figure}
If you want to specify where the figure has to be, you have to use some options of the figure environment: for example
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\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8cm,height=8cm]{fdd.eps}
\end{figure}
means that LaTeX will try to put the figure where you inserted the figure environment ([h]ere). Other options include
t: top
b: bottom
p: on a special page only for floating environments
You can use several options, for example
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\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=8cm,height=8cm]{fdd.eps}
\end{figure}
LaTeX will try to put the figure following the order of the options provided: first it will try to put it [h]ere, then on the [t]op and finally, if the other two possibilities are not available, it will put the figure on the [b]ottom of the page. This strategy lets LaTeX decide the best position for the figure.
For references, see this Overleaf document.
I have a LaTeX document with a figure and references to it:
\begin{figure}
...
\caption{...}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
\ref{fig:1}
I use the hyperref package to get hyperlinks in the resulting PDF.
However the link to the figure navigates to the caption leaving the figure itself out of the view. How can I make it navigate to the start of the figure instead without moving the caption to the top?
Add this in your preamble
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap} %for going to the top of an image when a figure reference is clicked
Make sure that the \usepackage[all]{hypcap} is written after the hyperref package is imported.
To previous comment:
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}
is slightly better than \usepackage[all]{hypcap} because when you use e.g. figure without captions there won't be a compilation problem. The caption package by default sets option
hypcap=true
anchoring hyperlinks to the beginning of an environment.
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}
Using this is a better idea than \usepackage[all]{hypcap}.
I have a few tables which are not long enough to warrant the use of \longtable, but they always start on the next page which breaks the whole flow and trying to force it with a [!h] in the table did not help. So I stopped using \tables and just have \tabular tag now which seems to have fixed the layout as there are no floats.
But the problem now is I can't get automatic captions for the Tables - any ideas how I can do this and also get auto numbering so when I use \addcontentsline it can show up in the TOC?
To use a caption outside a float environment, one needs to use \captionof which is part of package caption.
Example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rl}
right & left \\
right & left \\
\end{tabular}
\captionof{table}{Your caption here}
\end{center}
\end{document}
There is also a capt-of package if you are just interested in using the command \captionof.
Short answer; you need a \table for the caption. Only using \tabular + captioning is not gonna work.
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There may be a nasty work-around as people tend to create work-arounds for everything, but my base rule for most of those work-arounds is: "if latex does not provide it by itself, do not try to do it". Most of time those "fixes" will give even more text-flow problems anyway.
Now if you really want it right below the text just do a \clearpage before the table and place the table. Than the rest of the text. This will probably solve it, although it will give an empty space on the rest of your 'previous' page of course.
I need to put a margin note next to a tabbing environment. If I try to use \marginpar within the environment I get an error: LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.
I've tried putting the \marginpar just before the \begin of the environment but it ends up aligned with the last line of the preceding paragraph instead of with the first line of the tabbing environment.
In the example below the first margin note gets aligned above the tabbing text and the second one below. I tried using \vspace to shift the top note down, and that works okay unless a page break occurs between the tabbing environment and the preceding paragraph -- then the margin note and the tabbing text end up on separate pages.
Any ideas how to get the margin note to line up with the top of the tabbing text?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
\marginpar{a margin note}\begin{tabbing}
tabbing text a\\
tabbing text b\\
\end{tabbing}\marginpar{another margin note}
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
\end{document}
The marginnote package provides a work-around for this:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{marginnote}% http://ctan.org/pkg/marginnote
\begin{document}
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
\begin{tabbing}
tabbing text a \marginnote{a margin note} \\
tabbing text b
\end{tabbing}
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
\end{document}
I've been struggling with this. I wanted to insert an image and have it 'near' the text that discusses it, but have the text on that page wrap/flow around the image.
The image I've converted into eps format. I initially tried to use the figure environment (\begin{figure}...), but that merely placed the image at the top or bottom of the page without any text beside it, leaving a large portion of the page empty.
I did some digging on the web and identified the 'wrapfig' package, it seemed a likely solution, but I get a series of errors, and the image appears at the end of the document.
The errors:
Package wrapfig Warning: wrapfigure used inside a conflicting environment on input line 297.
Package wrapfig Warning: Stationary wrapfigure forced to float on input line 303.
Package wrapfig Warning: Stationary wrapfigure forced to float on input line 306.
Which continues for several lines.
What's odd is that one occasion, after compiling, the image appeared exactly where I wanted it, and then on the next it didn't.
[Added a minute or so later]
The latex code I have currently:
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.2\textwidth}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.18\textwidth]{vec-perp.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{A}
\end{wrapfigure}
wrapfigure does not need the [h] specifier.
you need to include the wrapfigure package in your preamble:
\usepackage{wrapfig}
then, put the wrapfigure call above the text you want to wrap into, like this:
\begin{wrapfigure}{r or l}{width/height} \centering \includegraphics[width/height]{graphic.filename} \caption{foo} \end{wrapfigure}
a real world example:
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{1.5in}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.5in]{smile.jpg}
\end{wrapfigure}
I just went through my document, commenting it out in sections, hoping to find the environment it was complaining about...in the process, I unintentionally introduced a blank line that I didn't have before. Apparently, the environment it was complaining about was the environment before the figure. I didn't have a blank line between the previous part, which was an itemize environment.
So...this, for example, is 'broken':
Ingredients for the Banana-Grape Bread Recipe
\begin{itemize}
\item Bananas
\item Grapes
\item Eggs
\end{itemize}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.2\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.18\textwidth]{banana-grape.eps}
\caption{BananaGrape Bread}
\end{wrapfigure}
And inserting a empty line:
\end{itemize}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.2\textwidth}
Clears up my problems. Along the way I learned all sorts of things, yay! On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I don't have a clear understanding of environments yet. Time to spend some time reading, I reckon.