I am using  \begin{figure}[b] \centering     \includegraphics{bla.pdf}     \caption{bla} \end{figure}   I would like this figure to be at the bottom of this page, so I include [b]. For some reason, the figure is pushed to the end of the whole chapter, several pages further down. In addition, it takes along another picture (this one does not have any [b] or [t] or [h] specification, which then also appears at the end of the chapter....  Why is [b] not working?
How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?   This is a general question and should collect useful answers for all users. I hope we can use this as a reference
Multiple TikZ keys with foreach Space faring human race encounters one highly advanced spaceship.  The one ship tells the human space fleet to go away and leave them alone. We don't listen and our ships are destroyed.  Human spy is sent to the alien world. Aliens look virtually identical to humans except they have no cartilage in their nose and the 'females' are only capable of mating every seven years. The human spy tells this story and is a brilliant tactician. He enters into a game tournament where they play a very complicated version of chess.  Human spy interacts with a higher ranking military officer who has a human female wife.  Human spy gets caught and when he is ultimately returned to Earth he advises humanity to unconditionally surrender to the alien race.  Humans eventually win because the alien males take human wives and their alien DNA is diluted in the vast human gene pool.  Looking for the title and author if anyone can recall them.  06/15 - update  I found the anthology. 'Second Game' was in 'The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels' which came out in 1980 and 1981.  I did read the original story from 1958 which was actually a nominee for the Hugo Award for Novelette in 1959. Why do harmonics occur when you pluck a string? I use ubuntu to deal with daily job. Now I buy a new laptop, and I want to migrate my whole system(programs, packages, data, settings, etc) to the new machine.  I know I can copy my home folder to new machine and I will get (almost) all data and settings. But is there a safe way to copy the whole system? Or it's a bad idea? Condition for a tensor to be decomposable Inexact measurement and wavefunction collapse What is the physical significance of the off-diagonal moment of inertia matrix elements? The tensor of moment of inertia contains six off-diagonal matrix elements, which vanish if we choose a reference frame aligned with the principal axes of the rotating rigid body; the angular momentum vector is then parallel to the angular velocity. But while considering the general case, what are the off-diagonal moment of inertia matrix elements? That is, do they have any physical significance as [say] the components of a vector? Or is it merely a mathematical construction with no definite physical meaning (which seems rather wrong to me)?  A similar thread exists  but they are more interested in the principal axes of the body. It also says:     The physical significance of the off-diagonal components is that   you're using a coordinate system not aligned with the principal   directions of the object. They tell us nothing interesting about the   object itself.   Is that all or is there more to it, perhaps related to properties of tensors in general? Already the early papers on supergravity were written using computer algebra software to do some calculations. What modern packages do people normally use for doing such calculations? Of course Mathematica and presumable a lot of other programs can be made to do such calculations, I am wondering if there are special packages or tutorials how to do such calculations in them. Showing $\int_{\mathbb R} \mid F(x)-G(x)\mid dx = \int_0^1 \mid F^{-1}(u)-G^{-1}(u)\mid du$ with $F$, $G$ CDF functions Let's $X$ and $Y$ have CDF functions admitting moment of order $1$. Let's be $F$ cdf of $X$ and $G$ cdf of $Y$.  I want to show that $$\int_{\mathbb R} \mid F(x)-G(x)\mid dx = \int_{0}^{1} \mid F^{-1}(u)-G^{-1}(u)\mid du\,.$$ Why does a window become a mirror at night? In day, when you look in the room through the window out, you can clearly see what happens outside. At night when it's dark outside but there's light inside you can look in the window but it becomes a mirror.  Why? Copy from Evernote to Paste to Wordpress preserving formating Is it possible to post texts directly from the Windows desktop Evernote application to Wordpress, and retain the formating? Simple copy/past leads to format break. Residence has changed - Must I re-apply for ESTA? I have an old, but still valid ESTA, with the country of residence showing my home country. However, I have recently moved for education in the UK. Do I have to apply for a new one?  Nothing else has changed - country of citizenship, passport, names etc Proofs of Determinants of Block matrices Running Commands on Remote Linux Server Using SSH I am writing a Bash Script wherein I need to run some set of commands on a remote Linux server from my local computer using SSH. I want the results to be displayed on the terminal screen or dump the results in a file on my local system.   How can achieve this? Is the following syntax correct?  \#!/bin/bash . . . .  ssh &lt;user&gt;@&lt;remote_host&gt; 'COMMAND &gt;&gt; /path/to/file ; scp /path/to/file &lt;user&gt;@&lt;local_host&gt;:&lt;location&gt;; exit' . .   Thanks in advance. Does my enemy get to make a saving throw for half damage for absolutely any spell I cast? So me and a group of friends recently started to play D&amp;D. I became a sorcerer. My question is: can the enemy I am attacking, no matter what spell I use, make a saving throw for half damage or does that only apply for certain spells?  For example, when I use my cantrip fire bolt, does the targeted opponent get to roll a saving throw for half damage against the spell, even though the description doesn't say anything about saving throws? Why is my command throwing a 'data tag parsing failed' error? I am trying to lock some boxes in a map of mine, and I used this command:   /blockdata 10 4 9 {Lock:Elyiana's Mage Key}   At first it worked, but then when I logged back on the next day it gave me this error message:    Data tag parsing failed: Expected '}' but ''' at: {Lock:Elyiana'&lt;--[HERE]     I don't know why it doesn't like the apostrophe in the key's name. I would change it, but it already worked and locked some other items. My version is 1.12, does anyone have an answer to my problem? What are the limitations of a typical kit lens as a general purpose lens? I have a Canon EOS 550d with the 18-55mm IS kit lens. I have done  (portraits, nature, night shots etc), and find the image quality to be pretty good. In fact most of the reviews have also been positive (at least in terms of image quality):   Quote:     indeed Canon's main concern may   ultimately become whether users have   as much incentive to upgrade to more   expensive optics as they did before       So, what are the key limitations of this lens (or any other similar kit lens) that would compel one to upgrade to a more expensive general purpose zoom lens (apart from the wanting to upgrade the zoom range)? Is it possible to assign the same value to multiple keys in a dict object at once? Can a Muggle inadvertently create a horcrux-like object? I think that we have it well-established (regardless of whether or not one sees this as flawed logic) that Harry is not a Horcrux.  A Horcrux has to be made intentionally, and the recipient is cursed and classified as an "evil object," etc.  Neither of which is true for Harry - so, as stated by JKR herself, Harry is not a Horcrux as such.  But the fact remains that murder can, in fact, accidentally create something that shares a key property of the Horcrux: the soul splits, attaches itself to the nearest recipient, and lingers inside.  As it does in Harry's case.  So my question is: is this only true for wizards?  A Muggle cannot utilize a spell to create a Horcrux.  But, if a Horcrux-like object / being can be created accidentally through murder without intentional Horcrux-creating spells, can this also happen in the case of a Muggle committing murder?    Can a Muggle commit murder, have their soul split, and have the piece of the soul inadvertently attach itself to something nearby without any Horcrux-creating spell being cast? What's the best way to draw UML class diagrams in LaTeX?