Floating figures: force position

[kovla]

It doesn't look like this issue has been raised before, so here goes. In Markdown, one currently has two options to specify a graphical image:

1. As a figure with caption.
2. As an inline image without caption.

Upon conversion to PDF a figure with caption would float, most often landing on the final page of the document. While it is possible to force the image to remain in place, this occurs at the cost of losing the caption.

This has been discussed here: http://bit.ly/18hElYg, but the workaround is not very elegant, and certainly breaks the automated workflow.

[tonytonyjan]

+1
and float package conflicts with fixltx2e package.

[posiczko]

FWIW:

The sub-elegant workaround @kovla mentions which involves float package, outputing from pandoc into tex, forcing figure not to float with placement specifier of H to the figures, can generate TOC, but you must rerun your latex twice (at least this is the case with xelatex).

[edusantana]

I got a warning saying that fixltx2e is no longer needed?:

Package fixltx2e Warning: fixltx2e is not required with releases after 2015
(fixltx2e)                All fixes are now in the LaTeX kernel.
(fixltx2e)                See the latexrelease package for details.

[jgm]

Yes -- it's just a warning, so I think it's harmless to
leave it in for a while longer, given that some users may
still have pre-2015 latex versions.

+++ Eduardo de Santana Medeiros Alexandre [May 29 16 13:10 ]:

I got a warning saying that fixltx2e is no longer needed?:
Package fixltx2e Warning: fixltx2e is not required with releases after 2015
(fixltx2e) All fixes are now in the LaTeX kernel.
(fixltx2e) See the latexrelease package for details.

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References

1. Floating figures: force position #845 (comment)
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[faridcher]

This solution worked for me:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/33801326/1407737

[krakrjak]

Ditto: @faridcher
To implement the snippet linked above just make a fix-captions.tex file with the given contents and modify your pandoc command line to contain -H fix-captions.tex and you are good to go.

[mb21]

@faridcher's solution seems to be adequate, thus closing this issue.

[wilx]

It might be enough to override default placement like this:

\makeatletter
\def\fps@figure{h}
\makeatother

[mirageglobe]

@wilx

thus for the pandoc markdown it will be like this?

---
header-includes: |
  \makeatletter
  \def\fps@figure{h}
  \makeatother
---

[quizilkend]

@wilx

thus for the pandoc markdown it will be like this?

---
header-includes: |
  \makeatletter
  \def\fps@figure{h}
  \makeatother
---

This seems to work.

[MrSauna]

This was not working for me. I had to change the h to uppercase H. I do not know what is technically happening but it seems to be working.

---
header-includes: |
  \makeatletter
  \def\fps@figure{H}
  \makeatother
---

pandoc 2.19.2