latex figure (or table) in a new page

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I'm curious what's the best way to get the table of figure to appear on the next page in your document. I've tried the \newpage command, which works but is a hassle as I basically need to declare it before each figure and after each figure. I've also tried passing the environment the "p" command but then it puts in the end of the chapter, I just want it on the next page. Any help would be much appreciated!

This answer is admittedly rather lengthy, but it might be useful for understanding more about floats in LaTeX. — Adam Liter, Nov 11 '13 at 19:14
@DavidCarlisle: This only works sometimes. Sometimes I get two figures still on the same page... — user1357015, Nov 13 '13 at 01:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 24 '15 at 20:31

\begin{figure}[p] should work to force the float to a float page, if you want to allow the float page to have just 1 float even if the float is small, then set \floatpagefraction small enough say

\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{0.1}

so that LaTeX does not need to hold the float back to fit a second float on the page to exceed \floatpagefraction (which is 0.5 in the standard classes)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '15 at 20:37

I suggest you load the afterpage package in the preamble and issue the following instructions in the body of the document:

\afterpage{%
   \clearpage % flush any accumulated floats
   \begin{figure}[ht!]  % or: \begin{table}[ht!]
   ... % body of figure/table environment
   \end{figure} % or: \end{table}
} % end of scope of \afterpage directive

Basically, execution of the instructions in the argument of \afterpage is deferred until the start of the next page.

latex figure (or table) in a new page

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