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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.
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<div>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
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\item The statement that $\Levof{f}{c}\cap R$ is the graph of \phiof{x} means that the function</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\phiof{x} is uniquely determined by \refer{eqn}{implicitfunct}.</div>
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<div>(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.</div>
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<div>"What a long, strange trip…"<br>
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<div>On Aug 20, 2014, at 10:29, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>></div>
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Help!
<div>I have no idea even how to approach this problem.</div>
<div>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:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>g_{a}(y_{0}-\delta_{2})<0<g_{a}(y_{0}+\delta_{2})</div>
<div>\end{equation*}</div>
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<div>and when I comment out just this equation the floats no longer disappear.</div>
<div>What can possibly be causing this kind of behavior?</div>
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<div>On Aug 18, 2014, at 17:23, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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I am totally dumbfounded on this.
<div>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:</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\begin{equation*}</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\gsof{a}{\yso-\delts{2}}<0<\gsof{a}{\yso+\delts{2}}</div>
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<div>and have dredged up all the definitions of the macros used in it:</div>
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<div>\newcommand{\gsof}[2]{\ensuremath{\subof{g}{#1}{#2}}}% subscripted function g</div>
<div>\newcommand{\subof}[3]{\of{#1_{#2}}{#3}}%subscripted function of</div>
<div>\newcommand{\ys}[1]{\ensuremath{y_{#1}}}%subscripted y</div>
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<div>\newcommand{\delts}[1]{\ensuremath{\delta_{#1}}}%subscripted delta</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Huh????</div>
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<div>On Aug 18, 2014, at 15:33, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></div>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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Any ideas?<br>
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Howdy,<br>
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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>
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