Trouble with table placement when use arraystretch

Question

Problem

Unable to get table and text boxes to share the same page.

Minimum Working Example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[paperheight=11in, paperwidth=17in, margin = 0.25cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\definecolor{patriarch}{rgb}{0.5, 0.0, 0.5}
\def\isize{0.80in}
\def\cpath{../graphics/zeros/checkers/}
\begin{document}
%
\def\arraystretch{7.3}
\begin{table}[ht]
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tabular}{ccccc ccccc ccccc ccc}
                %
            &&&&&&&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&&&&&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&&&&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&&&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&& 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            & 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} &&
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{\cpath "n08-m02-re"} \
                %
        \end{tabular}
    \end{center}
\end{table}
%
\begin{textblock}{5in}(0.0in, 0.35in) % {block width} (x, y coords) 
    \begin{center}
        \huge{\color{patriarch}{\bf{My Table}}}
    \end{center}
\end{textblock}
%
\begin{textblock}{5in}(11.7in, 0.5in) 
    \Large{$a+b=c$}
\end{textblock}
%
\end{document}

Questions consulted

Force table* to stay in the current page

Get a table and figure on the same page with captions & labels

Force figure placement in text

How to force a figure and a table to stay on the same page in LaTeX?

Do you get any warnings if you compile your code? Especially a warning such as "Float too large for page by ...pt"? — leandriis, Mar 28 '21 at 19:21
Are you sure that you need to place the tabular in a table environment? — Jasper Habicht, Mar 28 '21 at 19:52
note size commands do not take an argument \Large{$a+b=c$} shoule be \Large $a+b=c$ (same for \Huge) — David Carlisle, Mar 28 '21 at 20:43

Simon Dispa · Answer 1 · 2021-03-28T23:38:54.853

The solution is to use the xcoffins package instead of textpos.

In short, it puts the material (text, tables, figures, tikzfigures, etc.) in special boxes. (called coffins, bad choice of a name)

It has several advantages:

(1) It allows the joining of these boxes in various ways with offsets. I used a box of zero size as frame \Framex to attach (\Join...) the other two with proper horizontal and vertical offsets

(2) The boxes are not floats and are typeset at the current insertion points. In this way you can place the boxes anywhere on the physical page, including hard-to-reach places such as corners.

In this particular case there are four steps:

(1) Assign with \NewCoffin.

(2) Fill with \SetHorizontalCoffin.

(3) Join the boxes to the \Framex with offsets X, Y.

(4) Typeset the frame with \TypesetCoffin after the tabular. Since it is a zero-size box, it stays on the same page. In this case, the offset is measured from (close to) the bottom right of the page, so X is negative (to move left) and Y is positive (to move up)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[paperheight=11in, paperwidth=17in, margin = 0.25cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\definecolor{patriarch}{rgb}{0.5, 0.0, 0.5}
\def\isize{0.80in}
\def\cpath{../graphics/zeros/checkers/}
\usepackage{xcoffins}
\NewCoffin\MT
\NewCoffin\EQ
\NewCoffin\Framex
\begin{document}
    \SetHorizontalCoffin\MT{\color{patriarch}\bfseries \huge My Table}
    \SetHorizontalCoffin\EQ{\Large $a+b=c$}
\JoinCoffins*\Framex[l,t]\MT[l,t](-1150pt,350pt) % (xoffset, yoffset)
\JoinCoffins*\Framex[l,t]\EQ[l,t](-150pt,350pt)
%
\def\arraystretch{7.3}
\begin{table}[ht]
        \centering
        \begin{tabular}{ccccc ccccc ccccc ccc}
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;&amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            &amp; 
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} &amp;&amp;
            \includegraphics[ width = \isize ]{example-grid-100x100pt} \\
            %
        \end{tabular}
\TypesetCoffin\Framex
\end{table}

%   \begin{textblock*}{5in}(0.0in, 0.35in) % {block width} (x, y coords) 
%       \begin{center}
%           \huge{\color{patriarch}{\bf{My Table}}}
%       \end{center}
%   \end{textblock*}
%   %
%   \begin{textblock*}{5in}(11.7in, 0.5in) 
%       \Large{$a+b=c$}
%   \end{textblock*}
%   %

\end{document}

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Minimum Working Example

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