endfloat
I really like the functionality of endfloat but I would like to avoid the behavior of placing each figure and each table on a separate page. In particular, I have some small tables that look ridiculous all by themselves. I could save 5-10 page lengths on my report if I can put as many tables as can fit on a page at the end. Same with figures.
I looked around here and couldn't find an answer in the endfloat documentation…
Thanks!
Patch the \@figurepage command that's responsible for printing the figures; the usual setting is to leave 20pt of vertical space, which we can change to \clearpage:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{figcaps}
\printfigures
\figmarkon
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@figurepage}{\vspace{20pt}}{\clearpage}{}{}
\makeatother
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}
\caption{A floating figure}
\label{float}
\medskip \em \footnotesize \lipsum[1]
\end{figure}
Check out figure \ref{float}.
\lipsum [2]
\begin{figure}
\caption{A floating figure}
\label{float2}
\medskip \em \footnotesize \lipsum[1]
\end{figure}
Check out figure \ref{float2}.
\lipsum [2]
\end{document}
You have to repeat the resetting at every \section in the appendix.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[nofiglist,notablist]{endfloat}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\begin{document}
\section{Section one}
The main figure is Figure~\ref{Figure-1}, and the main table is Table~\ref{Table-1}. Supplemental material
includes Figure~\ref{Figure-A1} and Table~\ref{Table-A1} in the first appendix, and Figure~\ref{Figure-B1}
and Figure~\ref{Figure-B2} in the second appendix.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{fig1}
\caption{Figure one} \label{Figure-1}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Row 1 & 1\\
Row 2 & 2\\
Row 3 & 3\\
Row 4 & 4\\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table one}\label{Table-1}
\end{table}
\appendix
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\thepostfigure}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{postfigure}}
\setcounter{postfigure}{0}
\renewcommand{\theposttable}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{posttable}}
\setcounter{posttable}{0}
\efloat@iwrite{fff}{%
\unexpanded{%
\setcounter{section}{0}^^J%
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{figure}}^^J%
\setcounter{figure}{0}^^J%
}%
}
\efloat@iwrite{ttt}{%
\unexpanded{%
\setcounter{section}{0}^^J%
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{table}}^^J%
\setcounter{table}{0}^^J%
}%
}
\preto{\section}{%
\efloat@iwrite{fff}{%
\unexpanded{%
\stepcounter{section}^^J%
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{figure}}^^J%
\setcounter{figure}{0}^^J%
}%
}%
\efloat@iwrite{ttt}{%
\unexpanded{%
\stepcounter{section}^^J%
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\Alph{section}.\arabic{table}}^^J%
\setcounter{table}{0}^^J%
}%
}%
\setcounter{posttable}{0}\setcounter{postfigure}{0}%
}
\makeatother
\section{Appendix one}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Row 1 & 1\\
Row 2 & 2\\
Row 3 & 3\\
Row 4 & 4\\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table one in appendix A}\label{Table-A1}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{fig1}
\caption{Figure one in appendix A} \label{Figure-A1}
\end{figure}
\section{Appendix two}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{fig1}
\caption{Figure one in appendix B} \label{Figure-B1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{fig2}
\caption{Figure two in appendix B} \label{Figure-B2}
\end{figure}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{figure}}
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}}
\end{document}
Best Answer
From the package documentation (page 7):
Do note that this package is not intended to be used in preparing the final, published version of a document. It is not supposed to make the document user-friendly or readable. It is designed to format the document temporarily into a form which journals want. The journals do not publish articles in this format. Nor should you.