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Floats on their own on float pages |
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/FAQ-floatpages |
It's sometimes necessary to force a float to live on a page by itself.
(It's sometimes even necessary for every float to live on a
page by itself.) When the float fails to "set", and waits for the end
of a chapter or of the document, the natural thing to do is to declare
the float as
\begin{figure}[p!]
but the overriding ! modifier has no effect on float page floats; so
you have to make the float satisfy the parameters.
Moving tables and figures offers some
suggestions, but doesn't solve the one-float-per-page question.
The "obvious" solution, using the counter totalnumber
("total number of floats per page") doesn't work:
totalnumber only applies to floats on "text" pages (pages
containing text as well as one or more float). So, to allow any
size float to take a whole page, set \floatpagefraction really
small, and to ensure that no more than one float occupies a page, make
the separation between floats really big:
\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{.001}
\makeatletter
\setlength\@fpsep{\textheight}
\makeatother