RE: [MiKTeX] totalnumber

[Philip G. R. <phi...@ti...>]

> Hi - I am trying to write my doctoral dissertation.  I'm using a large
cls
> file written by someone else that is supposed to put the entire documen=
t
> into the school's thesis format.  I'm having a problem with the placeme=
nt
> of floats - figures and tables.  I don't want more than one float per
> page.  I duly opened up the cls file and found a line that read
> \setcounter{totalnumber}{3}
> and changed it to
> \setcounter{totalnumber}{1}
> This didn't fix the problem.  Is there some other command that trumps
> totalnumber somehow.  Or is there a way that totalnumber is being reset=

> without me knowing about it?

Well it should fix it, in the sense that early in the document floats sho=
uld
appear one per page.  However, if your optional placement arguments are,
e.g., [phtb] then the "p" option will allow a whole page of floats to app=
ear
when there is a sufficient backlog.  This placement may also have been se=
t
by default in the .cls file with, e.g., 

  \def\fps@figure{phtb}
  \def\fps@table{phtb}

You can override this globally with the same (minus the "p") in your prea=
mble
(enclosed in a \makeatletter ... \makeatother pair) or locally with, e.g.=
,
[htb] on every float environment.

I personally prefer the global solution and, indeed, always have a .sty
associated with each document containing all such directives (this also
avoids the need for a \makeatletter ... \makeatother pair).

Cordialmente,  Philip G. Ratcliffe 


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