floating object beneath paragraph

Question

Hi there,

writing my thesis with word I miss Latex. I'm struggling with the layout options of objects, e.g. a figure/group/table. I want to have them located beneath a certain (anchored) paragraph in the text without surrounding text. It doesn’t matter how far away from the anchored paragraph as long as it stays beneath the anchor. It should not split up paragraphs (however in general paragraphs should be splitable in the document, e.g. at the end of a page). Furthermore, if it’s a big picture which has to be located on the next page text should "move" on the black spot, or the picture should move downwards in text. Do you understand what I want to achieve?

Thus I selected wrapping style "Top and bottom". Furthermore, I selected in "position" "vertical" "absolute position" "1cm" below "paragraph". Then the paragraph gets split up after the first line and the picture always stays close to the anchored paragraph, not "moving downwards" in the text.

How can I achieve what I want?

Thank you for your help :)

Answer 1

Top and Bottom is the correct wrapping style; In Line with Text won't do what you want. But even Top and Bottom is going to require some manual intervention because a wrapped object must be on the same page as the paragraph to which it is anchored. This means that, if the object is going to be on the page following the paragraph that refers to it, it must be anchored to a paragraph on that page. You can manually drag the object anchor to any position (provided it's not locked).

Unless you are referring to a figure "below," it's probably more satisfactory to set the position of the object as "Top of Page." This would allow it to stay on the same page with the anchor paragraph even though it might be above it, or you could move the anchor to the following page to allow it to be at the top of that page.

Answer 2

But you said "It doesn’t matter how far away from the anchored paragraph as long as it stays beneath"  The next page is "beneath"

If you do not want that empty space, you will have to manually move some of the text that follows the picture into that space.

So, in other words, there is no possibilitiy to fill this white space with text automatically? Manually sounds quite complicated for 100 test pages.

Answer 3

But you said "It doesn’t matter how far away from the anchored paragraph as long as it stays beneath"  The next page is "beneath"

If you do not want that empty space, you will have to manually move some of the text that follows the picture into that space.

Answer 4

Better to insert the object with the Layout option set to In-line with text.

Thank you, however, this does not solve the problem. As soon a bigger picture "jumps" on the next page, the second page, the white space on the first page is not filled up with text.

Answer 5

Better to insert the object with the Layout option set to In-line with text.