Twoside, symmetric, justified option and problem with picture caption on even pages

[MAT]

Hello

I have a problem with picture captions.

I use \documentclass[b5paper,twoside,symmetric,justified]{tufte-book}
options,
and I noticed that picture caption on even pages are on the right -
instead on the left margin.

Interested that it is not for all pictures in documents: some pictures
on the even pages has captions on left, some on right margin... and I
cannot find out any regularity in this behaviour.

Initially I have this picture in png format.
Tried to save in pdf, tried to decrease picture's size - but without
success - caption is still on the right instead of left margin.

Exemplary code (basing on sample book) can be found here:
http://bioand.info/tufte_book_layout/SampleMT1.zip
You can see it on pages 25-26 (just inserted one of picture from my
document where I noticed such behaviour).

Does anyone have an idea what is wrong and what to fix it?

Regards

Magdalena Tkacz

[Dan T. Abell]

I'm copying here Kevin's reply to an earlier post:

"Since the LaTeX output routine runs asynchronously, it sometimes
screws up the odd/even page detection code, so the figure will be
positioned incorrectly. To override the detected odd/even page, use
one of the following two commands inside the figure/table
environment:

\forcerectofloat forces the float to be treated as if it were
appearing on a recto (right-hand side) page
\forceversofloat does the same, but for verso (left-hand side)
pages"

Float's are troublesome beasts. My current understanding is that LaTeX
can detect recto/verso when it _processes_ the float, but not when it
_places_ the float. Hence the occasional need to use the \force**float
commands.

Cheers,
-Dan

> Regards
>
> Magdalena Tkacz
>
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