When ! isn&#39;t enough, I also find that strategic placing of \clearpage can help (usually right after the figure in question).  If the figure conveniently fills up the lower half of a page, for example, this trick works well.  It backfires if the figure doesn&#39;t fit on the current page, though, because it leads to an unsightly almost entirely blank page in the document.  <div>
<br></div><div>Also, scaling the figure, using [scale=0.7] for example, can help squeeze the figure in to a spot where before it was getting pushed down to another page.</div><div><br></div><div>-Andy<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Rachel Crouch <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rcrouch@jd12.law.harvard.edu">rcrouch@jd12.law.harvard.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi class,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know how to force figures in Latex into the place in your document that you think they ought to be?  They seem to have a mind of their own.  We’ve been able to move them around a little in our paper, and we’ve gotten somewhere better than the default, but there must be a way to manipulate them more.  Is it possible to get a few of the figures to show up side by side?  Does anyone know of a good reference on this topic? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><font color="#888888">Rachel</font></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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