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I have a structuration dilemma. The source problem is that my appendix (in a report) needs full page figures, referenced individually in the main text.

But it also has tables, and sometimes sections constituted only of text, so I place the figures inside their own section. Example:

\documentclass[12pt,a5paper]{report}
\usepackage[toc]{appendix}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{float} % Figure placement "Here".

\usepackage{fancyhdr} % headers and footers
\pagestyle{fancy}


\begin{document}
\tableofcontents


\chapter{Main stuff}


\section{Stuff 1}


This is Stuff 1.


\markboth{Appendices}{}
\begin{appendices}
\floatplacement{H}


\section{Full page image}


\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=\textheight]{example-image-b}
\caption{Full page image}
\label{appendix:img-b}
\end{figure}


\section{Other explanations}


Here come details.


\end{appendices}


\end{document}

The problem is that :

  1. The figure is not displayed in the right appendix section;
  2. Anyway the section title would be redundant with the figure caption;
  3. If I remove the section around the figure, I won't have a TOC entry for that figure, nor the correct header marks. Also this means I have to put all appendix figures at the beginning.

Isn't it a common situation to put full page documents in appendix? What is the canonical way to do it?

Currently, I'm considering these options:

  1. Defining invisible section headings inside the appendix (Then I have to write the same text as section title and as caption.) ;
  2. Defining a new environment, sectionfigure, which just inserts a full page figure and simultaneaously starts a new section.
  3. Use \phantomsection (from hyperref) + \addcontentsline to delineate the figures. This looks the simplest.

Are there better ways? If not, I will have to ask more questions about how to achieve the previous points...

EDIT

Currently, I "solved" my problem by defining invisible section headings, with a preceding \clearpage:

\newcommand\invisiblesection[1]{%
  \refstepcounter{section}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection}#1}%
  \sectionmark{#1}}
...

\clearpage{}
\invisiblesection{Full page image}
PlasmaBinturong
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    Figures don't appear in the TOC. Why don't you use \listoffigures and no need for your \section{Full page image}. – Peter Wilson Jul 15 '20 at 17:08

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The command \textheight is the full length of text in your page. You must consider that the title will occupy some space. Also, I have specifically specified [h!] in the figure.

In summary, the following did the trick:

\begin{figure}[h!]
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=0.8\textheight]{example-image-b}
\caption{Full page image}
\label{appendix:img-b}
\end{figure}

PS: I tested with 80% of \textheight and it worked, but you may have to adjust.

Sebem
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