How to keep floating environments like table and figure close?
Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared? You could use more positioning options. Not just [h]. If you wish to place the figure near, allow more positioning options, for instance by [htbp] (here, top, bottom, page).
How to create a figure environment in latex?
Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX by Keith Reckdahl. The interesting part for your question may be Part IV: The Figure Environment beginning on page 55. There is also Frank Mittelbach’s excellent answer describing the floating mechanism and related options in great detail:
How to keep a table close to a caption?
If it is truly critical that your image / table gets placed where you have typed it in the document, then it isn’t a float, and why not remove the float environment entirely ie, insert it directly with \\captionof {figure} […] {…} for the captions. As @asia1281 mentioned, the [h] directive helps.
How to keep figures close to a table?
Another thing that may help is one of \\clearpage and \\cleardoublepage. These force all unprocessed floats to be typeset and then a new page or two (with \\cleardoublepage and some classes).
Where to place a floating environment in Excel?
If t is specified, try to place the floating environment at the top of the current or the next page. If b is specified, try to place the floating environment at the bottom of the current or the next page.
How to use the floating options [ T, H ]?
If ! is specified, then ignore the restrictions of placing floating objects, like maximal number of floats per page, amount of text in relation to floats, and so on. If h is specified, try to place the floating environment at the current position.
How to use the placement options [ T ], [ H ] with figures?
p means page: Place it on a page containing only floats, such as figures and tables. ! allows to ignore certain parameters of LaTeX for float placement, for example: topfraction: maximal portion of a page (or column resp., here and below), which is allowed to be used by floats at its top, default 0.7