[Tex/LaTex] How to get the figures not to be pushed to the end of the document

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For some reason, my figures get pushed to the end of the document. I tried begin{figure}[t], [h] and other options, but none helped. Any ideas how to get the figures to appear much earlier in the document, where they are approximately first mentioned in the .tex file?

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Note that this has been mentioned in a few places already. Here is a summary:

If you really want them to stay in place, you could just not put them in Floats. Then you can use either the caption or the capt-of package to add a caption to the figure.

However, I think that the most accepted method is to use the placeins package to have your floats placed in the section they appear in. You can also define \FloatBarriers to decide where floats should not go past.

Playing with the size of the figure, even for a couple of points, can also make a great difference in the placement while not changing much of the visual aspect.

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This works for me (revised, to take into account the new file structure):

\documentclass[12pt,openany]{memoir}
\usepackage{filecontents}% <--- used to create the two other files 'on the fly' (it makes the example self-contained)

\begin{filecontents}{folhadeestilos.sty}
 \usepackage[brazilian]{babel}
 \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
 \usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{mem.tex}
 \begin{table}[h]
   \centering
   \begin{tabular}{ll}
     a & b \\
   \end{tabular}
   \caption{table one}
 \end{table}

 \begin{figure}[h]
   \centering
    \caption{caption one}
 \end{figure}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage{folhadeestilos}
\counterwithout{figure}{chapter}
\counterwithout{table}{chapter}
\begin{document}

\chapter{one}

\input{mem.tex}

\section{two}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    a & b \\
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{table two}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
    \caption{caption two}
\end{figure}

\chapter{three}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    a & b \\
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{table three}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
    \caption{caption three}
\end{figure}

\section{four}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    a & b \\
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{table four}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
    \caption{caption four}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

If you are using memoir's \<front|main|back>matter commands, you will need to renew some definitions in order to make \counterwithout work as expected.

Thus, you can add to your preamble in this case (where all figures and tables are in the 'mainmatter' section):

\makeatletter 
 \renewcommand\@memmain@floats{%
   \counterwithout{figure}{chapter} 
   \counterwithout{table}{chapter}}             
\makeatother

(This could do in your personal .sty file, e.g.; but in that case, you don't need the two \makeat* commands.)

Less elegantly, you can simply move the \counter* commands to after the \mainmatter declaration.

[Tex/LaTex] Caption package in latex pushing all tables to end of document

[Converting comments to an answer]

It may be that there is one table causing this. That is, up to some point, all tables display where they should be. However, all tables after some point just get bundled at the end. If this is the case, you may have a too-large float that causes such problems. Making more space 'available' for floats may help, for example

\renewcommand{\topfraction}{.85}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.7}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{.15}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.66}
\renewcommand{\dbltopfraction}{.66}
\renewcommand{\dblfloatpagefraction}{.66}

(see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floats).

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