[Tex/LaTex] Force figure placement in text with lstinputlisting

floatslistingspositioning

I have been looking everywhere and I found the ways of doing this with images with \usepackage{float} for \includegraphics. But I also have texts from .txt files that I have as in \lstinputlisting that I would also like to force.

I don't really understand the documentation of how placement works.

5.1 Space and placement

float=[*] <subset of tbphi> or float floatplacement

makes sense on individual displayed listings only and
lets them float. The argument controls where LATEX is allowed to put
the float: at the top or bottom of the current/next page, on a
separate page, or here where the listing is. The optional star can be
used to get a double-column float in a two-column document

floatplacement=<place specifiers> tbp

is used as place specifier if
float is used without value.

Any ideas how I force the code below with \lstinputlisting?

\lstinputlisting[float=h,frame=tb,
    caption=Iteration: 2. Variable importance for unpruned decision tree ,captionpos=b, belowcaptionskip=2cm ,label=zebra]{results/maybe_80_20.txt}

Best Answer

Package listings supports captions for not floating listings. See the initial paragraph in section 5.7, "Captions" in the listings manual:

In despite of LaTeX standard behaviour, captions and floats are independent from each other here; you can use captions with non-floating listings.

So you can simple remove the float option from your example and use, e.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{mwe}

\begin{document}
\blindtext

\lstinputlisting[frame=tb,caption=Source of this file,
  captionpos=b,belowcaptionskip=2cm,
  label=zebra]{\jobname.tex}

\blindtext
\end{document}

to get

You have to use option float only for those listings, that should float.

Note: listings also allows page breaks inside non-floating listings with captions! So you have to use either a \parbox or minipage around them, if page breaks should not be allowed:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{mwe}

\begin{document}
\blindtext[3]

\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\lstinputlisting[frame=tb,caption=Source of this file,
  captionpos=b,belowcaptionskip=2cm,
  label=zebra]{\jobname.tex}
\end{minipage}

\blindtext
\end{document}

results in:

while

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{mwe}

\begin{document}
\blindtext[3]

%\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\lstinputlisting[frame=tb,caption=Source of this file,
  captionpos=b,belowcaptionskip=2cm,
  label=zebra]{\jobname.tex}
%\end{minipage}

\blindtext
\end{document}

results in:

BTW: Option H of package float cannot be used with \lstinputlisting:

% CAVEAT: THIS WILL NOT WORK! DON'T DO IT!!!
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{mwe}

\begin{document}
\blindtext

\lstinputlisting[float=H,frame=tb,
  caption=Source of this file,
  captionpos=b,belowcaptionskip=2cm,
  label=zebra]{\jobname.tex}

\blindtext
\end{document}

would result

As you can see, the listing is missing (without any error message). So: Don't do this!

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[Tex/LaTex] Force figure placement in text

The short answer: use the “float” package and then the [H] option for your figure.

\usepackage{float}

...

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics{slike/visina8}
\caption{Write some caption here}\label{visina8}
\end{figure}

The longer answer: The default behaviour of figures is to float, so that LaTeX can find the best way to arrange them in your document and make it look better. If you have a look, this is how books are often typeset. So, usually the best thing to do is just to let LaTeX do its work and don't try to force the placement of figures at specific locations. This also means that you should avoid using phrases such as “in the following figure:”, which requires the figure to be set a specific location, and use “in Figure~\ref{..}“ instead, taking advantage of LaTeX's cross-references.

If for some reason you really want some particular figure to be placed “HERE”, and not where LaTeX wants to put it, then use the [H] option of the “float” package which basically turns the floating figure into a regular non-float.

Also note that, if you don't want to add a caption to your figure, then you don't need to use the figure environment at all! You can use the \includegraphics command anywhere in your document to insert an image.

[Tex/LaTex] Placement of figure inline with text

Putting the image into a figure environment means that it is allowed to float around; it will be placed wherever TeX thinks it fits. But you want to have it in a fixed place.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\hspace*{\fill}{\Huge\bfseries\sffamily Example Image}\hfill
\makebox[0cm][r]{\includegraphics[height=2cm]{example-image}}%
\bigskip

\section*{Personal Data}
\end{document}

Putting the image into \makebox[0cm][r]{...} removes its width, so it does not influence the centering of the headline. Moreover, r places it flush with the right border.

To center the headline vertically with the image, you can lower the image w.r.t. to the baseline using \raisebox.

\makebox[0cm][r]{\raisebox{-4ex}{\includegraphics[height=2cm]{example-image}}}%

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