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There are many questions/complaints about the positioning of floats (figure or table) on this site --- use [H] or [htp] or .... I have a vague memory that some years ago somebody produced a document that comprehensively detailed everything that you needed to know about how LaTeX positioned floats and how you could control that.

Being an old man with a fading memory I can't recall or find where this is available (perhaps somewhere on the TUG website). Hopefully someone else will be able to point to it. It could be very helpful as a generic answer to float problems.

Peter Wilson
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    See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/how-to-influence-the-position-of-float-environments-like-figure-and-table-in-lat – Zarko May 27 '22 at 18:38
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    You wrote one yourself as part of the memoir manual. Though it does not cover [H] as [H] is not a part of memoir. I refer people to it from time to time as it is a good explanation about how the many settings work. – daleif May 27 '22 at 18:47
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    I'm not sure if that's what you had in mind, but FMi had one such article at TUG. See the 2014 one at https://www.latex-project.org/publications/indexbytopic/2e-floats/. – gusbrs May 27 '22 at 23:57
  • Is it somewhere within Often referenced questions - TeX - LaTeX Meta Stack Exchange → Float ? // in any case there's also "the LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual", although it's not really linkable. – user202729 May 28 '22 at 10:48
  • I think that I was thinking of Frank Mittelbach's 2014 article in TUGboat as referenced by @gusbrs, to whom thanks. Would you like to make it an answer? – Peter Wilson May 28 '22 at 17:22

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Frank Mittelbach has one such TUGboat article: How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?. And an excellent one at that.

It is also available at https://www.latex-project.org/publications/indexbytopic/2e-floats/ alongside with the documentation of fewerfloatpages (also a TUGboat article), which may also be of interest.

And the original article was actually derived from an answer here on the site: How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? which, as reminded by @user202729 is the accepted answer to the first question on Often referenced questions - TeX - LaTeX Meta Stack Exchange → Float.

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