Well, I search through the SE site but it seems everyone else was asking how to avoid appending figure and their accidents are not quite an elegant solution to my problem — I'm looking for a way (one line command if possible) so that I can either keep the figures where they appear within the text, or sweep all to the very end of file (after all text including bibliography) while maintaining their relative order. Any ideas?
[Tex/LaTex] How to tell LaTeX to place all figures at the end of pdf file
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Alan Munn posted a link to Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned. Here's some code showing a way mentioned there, using the placeins package:
\usepackage{placeins}
...
\FloatBarrier
\subsection{A subsection}
...
\begin{figure}[ht]
% your figure
\end{figure}
...
\FloatBarrier
\subsection{Another subsection}
The \FloatBarrier command prevents floating of the figure into another subsection.
You mention no concern about float numbering, so my suggestion would be to forego any kind of floating for the single-column figures. For this, use the [H] float specifier:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} %used to generate filler text
\usepackage{afterpage,float}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\section{Section with figures}
\lipsum[66]
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure*}
Some more text.
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure}
Some more text yet again.
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure}
And, yet again, more text.
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{}
\end{figure}
\newpage
\section{After figures}
I want this text to appear \textbf{after} all the figures above, but not
simply on a fresh page after the last figure. I would like it to
start running after the last figure. For instance, if the last figure
takes a page, I would like this text to continue right after it
such that the figure is on the top half and this text is on the bottom
half of the page.
\lipsum[66]
\end{document}
The two-column figure* is placed after a \newpage. However, you can play around with the placement of this float without your actual document text (again, ignoring float numbering).
Best Answer
For the first (risky (see link below)) possibility (force all figures to appear exactly where they are declared in the code, suppressing flotation), you can use the
floatpackage and its\floatplacementcommand together with theHspecifier:Of course, this has some drawbacks: Drawbacks of the `H` specifier.
For the second one (moving all figures to the end of the document), the
endfloatpackage can be used. For example, the following:will cause just
figureenvironments (nortableor other user-defined floats) to be placed at the end of the document and won't produce any marker in the place where the figures originally were.Refer to the package documentation to see all the other options it offers.