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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/10/2011 07:38 PM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> Kevin:
> Placing figures is difficult in lots of tool chains. My gut feeling is that 
> since we don't necessarily have scheduled time and person-power to go through 
> the text and plcae figures *every* time we need to create a pdf, and since a 
> misplaced figure is *worse* than extra whitespace on a page from the point of 
> reader comprehension, we should consider a default placement of HERE (with 
> "[h]") in the above.
>
> In other words, by default, the figure should appear where the author placed 
> it in the text.
>
> That way, anyone at anytime can build a pdf without having to work through the 
> whole thing. 

Except that it doesn't work. And the web page [1] uses the wiggly word 
'approximately' to state the affect of [h].

(And [h!] doesn't have the desired effect, nor does using package float and the 
[H] attribute).

So, the QUESTION is:

Can we have a default setting that places the graphic in the serial position of 
its placement in text, even it that results in awkward white space?

I think that is desirable.

Would that somehow prevent an editorial pass that rectifies figure placement, 
when there's time for this?

Cheers,
Kyle

[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions