[texhax] controlling table locations

[Thomas Schneider]

Folks:

One normally controls table locations like this:

\begin{table}[p] % the table goes to a page at the end of the document
...
\end[table}

\begin{table}[h] % the table goes to the location on the current page.
...
\end[table}

I wanted to be able to switch between these two for many tables at
once, so I made a command:

\newcommand{\tablelocation}{p}

and used it:

\begin{table}[\tablelocation] % the table goes to the top of the current page!
...
\end[table}

Switching to

\newcommand{\tablelocation}{h}

LaTeX still put the table at the top of the current page.

Is there a way to do this?

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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