figure/table placement

[boyd...@gmail.com]

Some of my figures and tables are being pushed to the end of my chapter instead of being placed close to the text where I include and refer to them. Is this because of the size of the figures? What else could I do to make figures and tables appear closer to the text that refers to them?

[lun...@gmail.com]

This is an old question, but I will answer it anyways. When you place a figure, you will have a statement such as

\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}

You can specify a float placement after the \begin{figure} statement:

\begin{figure}[h]
...
\end{figure}

The [h] option will pin the figure close to where you specify it in your tex file.
[H] will pin the figure exactly where you specify it in the tex file

Other options available here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions