LaTeX: how to force two figures onto the same (floating) page?

[fritz zaucker]

Hi there,

in LaTeX, I'd like to do something like the following:

\begin{samepage}

\begin{figure}
\caption{Bla bla 1}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\caption{Bla bla 2}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

\end{samepage}

In words, I'd like to float the two figures together. I want to have
two figure, because I want seperate captions and labels.

The above construct doesn't give an error, but the figures don't
necessarily stoick together either.

Any solutions?

Thanks,
Fritz

[Donald Arseneau]

In article <FRITZZ.92J...@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu>,
fri...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) wants two figures to float
together.

\begin{figure}
pretty picture

\caption{Bla bla 1}
\label{fig1}

ugly picture

\caption{Bla bla 2}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

It is sometimes useful to use
\begin{figure}
\vbox to \textheight{% is there a LaTeX-syntax equivalent?
...
}
\end{figure}

Donald

[Ralf Treinen]

In article <FRITZZ.92J...@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu>, fri...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:

|>
|> In words, I'd like to float the two figures together. I want to have
|> two figure, because I want seperate captions and labels.
|>

A quick solution (but this will of course apply to all of your document) is to
increase the fraction of a page that might be used for a figure:

\def\textfraction{.01}
\def\topfraction{.99}

Ralf.

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[Guanghua Zhang]

In article <FRITZZ.92J...@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu> fri...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
>
>Hi there,
>
>in LaTeX, I'd like to do something like the following:
>
>
>\begin{samepage}
>
> \begin{figure}
> \caption{Bla bla 1}
> \label{fig1}
> \end{figure}
>
> \begin{figure}
> \caption{Bla bla 2}
> \label{fig2}
> \end{figure}
>
>\end{samepage}
>
>In words, I'd like to float the two figures together. I want to have
>two figure, because I want seperate captions and labels.
>

I used \psfig in the following way,

\begin{figure}[p]

\caption{Bla bla 1}
\label{fig1}

\vspace{10mm}

\caption{Bla bla 2}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

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