How can I stop org mode from moving my figures to the last page?

Question

I'm currently trying to write up my thesis in emacs org-mode, and have run into some problems with file inclusions.

When I include figures with:

#+NAME: fig:banana
#+CAPTION: this is a figure caption
[[/path/to/image.png]]

(or using a pdf) it works fine. But when I insert another image, it is somehow moved to the end of the file instead of being inserted where it is called.

My pdf-export process (in my ~/.emacs file) looks like this:

(setq org-latex-pdf-process
  '("latexmk -pdflatex='pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode' -pdf -bibtex -f %f"))

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Answer 1

A friend of mine pointed me to the LaTex package placeins.

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{placeins}

* section 1
** hi!

#+TITLE: fig:banana
#+CAPTION: this is a banana figure
[[/link/to/banana.png]]

\FloatBarrier

* section 2

The FloatBarrier stops floats (figures are floats) from jumping over them. I will need to look into passing [tbh] options to figures from org mode further.

Answer 2

Check the org-mode manual on how to pass placement options such as [h], [t] etc. to theLaTeX compiler.

If you're not sure how to control where figures (more precisely, floats) get placed by LaTeX, please refer to any introduction.

Or do you want the figure to be placed where you include it? If so, you might not need it to be a float.