<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have of course no idea of what the problem might be---if only because I don't use floats, but when I have an error that does not make sense to me, I try to "re-construct". <div><br></div><div>Yesterday, something like that happened to me: There was a lone dot in the middle of a blank space and when I removed it, it wouldn't compile!!! And the error was given to be a hundred lines down the pike.</div><div><br></div><div>Commenting out the whole section, it would compile. Uncommenting piece by piece did not work. Either it compiled or it did not and the error was still given to be a hundred lines down the pike. It seemed to be the dot and only the dot.</div><div><br></div><div>What I finally do in such case is to "re-construct". The idea is to *copy only pure text*. Any construction, I redo from scratch. If there is, say, an itemization, I insert a blank itemization in which I then enter, one by one, pieces of *pure text* from the commented-out itemization. </div><div><br></div><div>It's a real chore but ... it worked. And I still don't know how that lone dot was doing it.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>--schremmer</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> It doesn't make sense to me, since it is only certain specific items (one particular equation* environment, but not other, longer ones; one particular \item, but not other longer ones) that cause the problem. At Nestor Aguilera's suggestion, I tried changing the floats themselves from an [htbp] option to just [p], but this didn't have any effect. <div>Z<br> <div> <div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:18, George Gratzer <<a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com">gratzer@me.com</a>></div> <div> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> Could it be a spacing problem? Delete something and then there is room for the floats? <div><br> </div> <div>GG</div> <div><br> <div> <div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> OK, I'll hunt for that. But hen why would it work OK if the equation* environment in one place and the one \item (but not the others in the same list) is commented out?<br> <div> <div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:37, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></div> <div> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"><br> On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">Even more curious. If I comment out the text for the equation* environment, the floats continue to disappear (so it is not the actual material inside the equation*). When I replace the equation* environment with in-line equation (i.e., $…$), with the content of the equation* included, the floats reappear. <br> <br> Now, uncommenting more, later material (including some other equation* environments), all goes well, until I come to a list: an "itemize" environment, with several items. Most of these items have no effect on the floats (i.e., they don't disappear), except for a single item<br> <blockquote type="cite">\item The statement that $\Levof{f}{c}\cap R$ is the graph of \phiof{x} means that the function<br> \phiof{x} is uniquely determined by \refer{eqn}{implicitfunct}.<br> </blockquote> (I am no longer trying to replace the macros here with their definitions, because in the past the content appeared not to be the problem. ) If the itemize environment has only this item, the floats disappear. If I comment this out but include the other 3-4 items, the floats reappear. And if then I again uncomment the single item (leaving the others uncommented) the floats disappear again.<br> <br> "What a long, strange trip…"<br> On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:29, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>><br> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">Help!<br> I have no idea even how to approach this problem.<br> I am getting lost floats messages (which I did not get before) when I include in my text (a few pages before the given floats) the following totally innocuous equation:<br> *************************************************<br> \begin{equation*}<br> g_{a}(y_{0}-\delta_{2})<0<g_{a}(y_{0}+\delta_{2})<br> \end{equation*}<br> ****************************************************<br> and when I comment out just this equation the floats no longer disappear.<br> What can possibly be causing this kind of behavior?<br> <br> Z<br> On Aug 18, 2014, at 17:23, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">I am totally dumbfounded on this.<br> I totally commented out everything I had been tinkering with, and the floats worked fine. Then I started uncommenting bits; I narrowed at least one source of the problem to the following equation:<br> <blockquote type="cite">\begin{equation*}<br> \gsof{a}{\yso-\delts{2}}<0<\gsof{a}{\yso+\delts{2}}<br> \end{equation*}<br> </blockquote> and have dredged up all the definitions of the macros used in it:<br> <blockquote type="cite">\newcommand{\gsof}[2]{\ensuremath{\subof{g}{#1}{#2}}}% subscripted function g<br> \newcommand{\subof}[3]{\of{#1_{#2}}{#3}}%subscripted function of<br> \newcommand{\ys}[1]{\ensuremath{y_{#1}}}%subscripted y<br> \newcommand{\yso}{\ys{0}}<br> \newcommand{\delts}[1]{\ensuremath{\delta_{#1}}}%subscripted delta<br> </blockquote> <br> Nothing unusual that I can see. But this is at least one of the culprits: when I comment out this equation, the floats all work fine. When I then uncomment JUST those three lines (the equation) from what just worked, two of the floats get lost.<br> <br> Huh????<br> <br> Z<br> On Aug 18, 2014, at 15:33, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>><br> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite"><br> On Aug 18, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite">I'm encountering a rather disastrous problem for which I can't provide a minimal example, since it is the maximal structure that seems to be causing it. I'm asking for suggestions on how to trouble shoot it.<br> Here is the situation: I am revising a large book project, and in particular I have a set of pst-3D pictures set up in complicated floats (with sub floats, etc). These have never caused problems until just now. I was tinkering with some text several pages before these floats when I started getting the error message "Floats lost". I tried to track down what was causing this problem, and ultimately commented out the whole section of text (which has no direct connection to the floats in question--they are in a different section ) which resulted in still getting the error message, but the floats which get lost seem to vary with what I comment out in the text. (That is, some lost ones reappear, but others disappear) I have no idea how to proceed from here, since anything that might have been embedded in the text I was tinkering with has been commented out, and before I started tinkering there was no error message.<br> <br> I seemed to recall that in the previous version of this book project I ran into some problems having to do with memory--I think--and it was resolved by following each of these megafloats with the line "\afterpage{\clearpage}". I found one of these commented out in my present version and restored it--again changing which floats get lost, but not the fact that some are always being lost.<br> <br> Any ideas?<br> <br> Zbigniew Nitecki<br> Department of Mathematics<br> Tufts University<br> Medford, MA 02155<br> </blockquote> <br> Howdy,<br> <br> My first guess (and it's only a guess) is that LaTeX can't find an ``acceptable'' location for the floats because of the added text. I'm not sure how you fix that but others here should be able to help.<br> <br> Good Luck,<br> <br> Herb Schulz<br> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br> </blockquote> <br> Zbigniew Nitecki<br> Department of Mathematics<br> Tufts University<br> Medford, MA 02155<br> </blockquote> <br> <br> Zbigniew Nitecki<br> Department of Mathematics<br> Tufts University<br> Medford, MA 02155<br> <br> </blockquote> <br> Zbigniew Nitecki<br> Department of Mathematics<br> Tufts University<br> Medford, MA 02155<br> </blockquote> <br> Howdy,<br> <br> Now it's beginning to sound like a list environment of some sort that isn't being closed; i.e., no \end{...}.<br> <br> Good Luck,<br> <br> Herb Schulz<br> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br> TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br> List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br> List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br> TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br> List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br> <div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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