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floating environment will allow you to have figures to be placed automatically in sensible places by tex:

standard: this floating environment will cause the figure to use the whole width of the page:

document layout:

% ...
\begin{document}
% ...
\begin{figure}[PLACEMENT]
% ...
\end{figure}
% ...
\end{document}

placement:
- h: here
- t: top
- b: bottom
- p: on page containing floats
- !: force

placing two figures next to each other inside a single figure environment including captions printed below and labels:

\begin{figure}[t]
\parbox[t]{7cm}{
    \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=7cm]{figure1}
    \caption{figure 1}
    \label{fig.figure1}
}
\parbox[t]{7cm}{
    \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=7cm]{figure2}
    \caption{figure 2}
    \label{fig.figure2}
}
\end{figure}

floating: this floating environment will allow text to be printed next to the figure.
- document layout:
```
% ...
\usepackage[OPTIONS]{floatflt}
% ...
\begin{document}
% ...
\begin{floatingfigure}[PLACEMENT]{WIDTH}
% ...
\end{floatingfigure}
% ...
\end{document}
```
- options:
  - rflt: placed right in paragraph
  - lflt: placed left in paragraph
  - vflt: placed left on even-numbered pages and right on odd-numbered
- placement:
  - r: see above
  - l: see above
  - p: see above
  - v: see vflt package option
NOTE: using this package floating figures need to placed with care: they might disappear if placed too close to sectioning commands. they might overlap with list environments.
referring to figures is referring to captions: see caption

stopping a floating environment to be moved to the end of the document

% places all floats and starts a new page
\clearpage

% places all floats and starts a new double page
\cleardoublepage

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