LaTeX table positioning

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I have a LaTeX document that contains a paragraph followed by 4 tables followed by a second paragraph  I want the 4 tables to appear between the two paragraphs which from what I ve read means I should use the  h  option after beginning the table environment  e g   begin table  h      Using this the first two tables appear after paragraph 1 as expected  however paragraph 2 is then displayed with the last two tables appearing on the following page  How can I get the tables to appear in the correct location   I ve tried various things to correct the positioning such as using  h   however this doesn t seem  to have any effect  Using  clearpage after the tables does have the desired effect of making the tables appear before the second paragraph but it then leaves the last two tables on their own page with loads of white-space  when I would prefer to have the second paragraph begin immediately after the tables   Paragraph 1      begin table  h      table1     end table    begin table  h     table2     end table  h       Paragraph 2

User · Accepted Answer

After doing some more googling I came across the float package which lets you prevent LaTeX from repositioning the tables.

In the preamble:

\usepackage{float}
\restylefloat{table}

Then for each table you can use the H placement option (e.g. \begin{table}[H]) to make sure it doesn't get repositioned.

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If you want to have two tables next to each other you can use   with float package loaded    begin table  H    begin minipage   5 textwidth     first table   end minipage    begin minipage   5 textwidth     second table   end minipage   end table    Each one will have own caption and number  Another option is subfigure package

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Table Positioning  Available Parameters  A table can easily be placed with the following parameters    h Place the float here  i e   approximately at the same point it occurs in the source text  however  not exactly at the spot  t Position at the top of the page  b Position at the bottom of the page  p Put on a special page for floats only    Override internal parameters LaTeX uses for determining  good  float positions  H Places the float at precisely the location in the LATEX code  Requires the float package  This is somewhat equivalent to h     If you want to make use of H  or h   for an exact positioning  make sure you got the float package correctly set up in the preamble    usepackage float   restylefloat table    Example  If you want to place the table at the same page  either at the exact place or at least at the top of the page  what fits best for the latex engine   use the parameters h and t like this    begin table  ht      table content      end table      Sources  Overleaf com

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At the beginning with the usepackage definitions include   usepackage placeins   And before and after add   FloatBarrier  begin table  h       begin tabular  llll                   end tabular   end table   FloatBarrier  This places the table exactly where you want in the text

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What happens if the text plus tables plus text doesn t fit onto a single page  By trying to force the typesetting in this way  you are very likely to end up with pages that run too short  i e   because a table cannot by default break over a page it will be pushed to the next  and leave a gap on the page before  You ll notice that you never see this in a published book   The floating behaviour is a Good Thing  I recommend using  htbp  as the default setting for all tables and figures until your document is complete  only then should think about fine-tuning their precise placement   P S  Read the FAQ  most other answers here are partial combinations of advice given there

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Not necessary to use   restylefloat and destroys other options  like caption placement  just use  H  or   h  after  begin table

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You may want to add this to your preamble  and adjust the values as necessary     ------------begin Float Adjustment  two column float page must be 90  full  renewcommand dblfloatpagefraction  90   two column top float can cover up to 80  of page  renewcommand dbltopfraction  80   float page must be 90  full  renewcommand floatpagefraction  90   top float can cover up to 80  of page  renewcommand topfraction  80   bottom float can cover up to 80  of page  renewcommand bottomfraction  80   at least 10  of a normal page must contain text  renewcommand textfraction  1   separation between floats and text  setlength dbltextfloatsep 9pt plus 5pt minus 3pt    separation between two column floats and text  setlength textfloatsep 4pt plus 2pt minus 1 5pt    Particularly  the  floatpagefraction may be of interest

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Here s an easy solution  from Wikibooks      The placeins package provides the command  FloatBarrier  which can be used to prevent floats from being moved over it    I just put  FloatBarrier before and after every table

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In my case I was having an issue where the table was not being displayed right after the paragraph I inserted it  so I simply changed  begin table     to  begin table  ht

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