[Tex/LaTex] Floats – how to restrict floating to subsection only in one section of the document

Question

I have concluded that the package float allows figures to float within the section they belong to. However for one particular section I need to restrict the floating to the subsection (without forcing the exact location).

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Custom_Floats I think this is the description of what I need, but I can't work further with it.

outer counter – the presence of this parameter indicates that the counter associated with this new float should depend on outer counter, for example 'chapter'.

I need to set that outer counter to be subsection rather than section which is the default. however I only need that for one specific section. Everywhere else floats can float…

Seeing this:

\newfloat{type}{placement}{ext}[outer counter]

I have tried and replaced figure for figuresubsec on the cases I needed and used this:

\newfloat{figuresubsec}{htbp}{floats-ext}[subsection]

however the pictures do appear but don't move to their subsection and they don't appear in the list of figures.

Answer 1

Use the \FloatBarrier command of the placeins package.

EDIT: Counters associated with a float may influence float numbering, e.g. "Table 1.3" (third table in section 1 of an article) instead of "Table 3" (third table in an article). Those counters bear no direct relationship to float placement. (In the LaTeX standard book class, there's one indirect relationship: The \chapter command acts as a float barrier.)

EDIT2: The \newfloat command is used to create new types of floats, e.g. "maps" besides tables and figures. These "maps" may be listed in a "list of maps", but (unless you do some hacking) won't appear in the list of figures.