How to move figures in LaTeX?

[Tom K.L.]

I have a problem of letting LaTex place figures at desired locations. When
I include several figures, LaTeX always puts many figures together at the
end of ducument, on seperate pages containing no text but figures only.
These may happen even if I use "h" (here) location argument with \begin{figure}
and obviously sometimes there is enough space for the figure in between the
text. My question is, could I have full control to position figures in LaTeX?

Any helps are appreciated.

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Tom K. Lu
ele...@menudo.uh.edu

[Malcolm Standring]

Hi,
I'm afraid "sometimes enougth space" isn't quite good enougth
for LaTeX... once it encounters ONE figure it can't place (and here
its a good idea to give LaTeX as many chances as possible i.e [htb]
instead of just [h]) it puts that fig. on the "float page" (usually
at the end of a chapter, if memory serves me). Of course, once this
happens, then LaTeX won't put following figs out of order, so they
get placed.....guess where?

Generic advice:
1) Specify [htb] instead of [h] to give LaTeX a decent stab at placing
in-line

2) Find the offending figure (i.e. first on the "float page") and
go and fix it (e.g. moving the actual \begin{figure}..\end{figure}
environment).

Hope this helps.

Malcolm Standring