Practical LaTeX by George Grätzer

Author:George Grätzer
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

6.4.2 Floating tables and illustrations

Many documents contain tables and illustrations. These must be treated in a special way since they cannot be broken across pages. If necessary, LaTeX moves—floats—a table or an illustration to the top or bottom of the current or the next page if possible and further away if not.

LaTeX provides the table and the figure environments for typesetting floats. The two are identical except that the figure environments are captioned Figure 1, Figure 2, and so on, whereas the table environments are numbered as Table 1, Table 2, and so on.

Tables

A table environment is set up as follows:

\begin{table}

\caption{title}\label{Ta:xxx}

Place the table here

\end{table}

The \caption command is optional and should precede the table. The optional \label command must follow the command \caption. The label is used to reference the table’s number. A table environment can have more than one table, each with its own caption.

The table environment is primarily used for tables made with the tabular environment; see Section 3.​5. There are many examples of tables in this book.

Figures

Illustrations, also called graphics or figures, include drawings, scanned images, digitized photos, and so on. These can be inserted with a figure environment. Using the graphicx package, a typical figure is specified as follows:

\begin{figure}

\centering\includegraphics{file}

\caption{title }\label{Fi:xxx}

\end{figure}

The illustration circle.pdf is included with the command

\includegraphics{circle}

without the extension.

If you have to scale circle.pdf, say to 68% of its original size, use the command

\includegraphics[scale=.68]{circle}

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