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When there are only floats on page, I get the following message: "warning: Text page X contains only floats.". I'd like to suppress this warning. I know that I could use p parameter: \begin{table}[!htp], but I still want the whole page to be handled like normal text page, not like page of floats. Any ideas?

Karol Majewski
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    apart from having floats in what way do you not want the page to be a float page, by default page style etc are identical. – David Carlisle Jan 14 '15 at 17:22
  • The message is not coming from a macro but is directly coded in the tokens in the \output register so you would need to copy that omitting the warning. – David Carlisle Jan 14 '15 at 17:24

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The problem is explained here http://aty.sdsu.edu/bibliog/latex/floats.html. You may find that simply adding 

\clearpage

before you begin with your figures will get rid of the warning.

Tina
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    Worth noting that this solution forces a page break before the image. Without the \clearpage, the text flow continues and the image is included as soon as the next page break (naturally) happens. – Dinei Nov 01 '20 at 19:38
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    The link does not say why there is a warning and how to get rid of it. – jarauh Oct 19 '21 at 14:43
  • @jaruah, the link leads to a document that not only explains the problem, but also talks about the solution I mentioned above, see 4th section beginning with "If you find that liberal values of the float parameters still are causing trouble, you can try forcing a float page with \clearpage to disgorge the accumulated blockage." – Tina Oct 19 '21 at 15:24
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If you want to get rid of the warning, you can use the silence package:

\usepackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{latex}{Text page 8 contains only floats}

replace 8 with the actual page number appearing in the warning message. You could also use

\usepackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{latex}{Text page}

to suppress all warnings beginning with the string Text page.

Or, better yet, you can use \WarningFilter* (note the star) to silence the messages by the way they are constructed:

\WarningFilter*{latex}{Text page \thepage\space contains only floats}

The following example document

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{silence}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

%\WarningFilter*{latex}{Text page \thepage\space contains only floats}


\begin{document}


\lipsum[4]
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\lipsum[4]


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!hb]
\includegraphics[height=7cm]{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\end{figure}


\lipsum[2-40]


\end{document}

gives the warning

LaTeX Warning: Text page 8 contains only floats.

uncomment the line with the \WarningFilter* command and the warning will vanish.

You can also check the silence package documentation for more info.

Dinei
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Gonzalo Medina
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    This does solve the problem of silencing the warning. However, this does not explain the nature of said warning, which could have roots on a problem with the code itself. – Eduardo J. Sanchez Dec 18 '15 at 13:28
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(Not enough reputation to comment.) I just had the same problem, and removing the location specifiers (e.g. [!tb]) solved the issue for me.

Using \clearpage as mentioned in other answers resulted in a large undesired white space.

ichthyophile
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