Figures and tables at the end/Page of floats

[John Kane]

Ah, very nice.

On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 09:43, Maria Gouskova <gouskova at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:20 PM John Kane <jrkrideau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have a look at the APA or APA ver 6 classes .
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 13:32, Maria Gouskova <gouskova at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi LyX users,
>>>
>>> I am preparing a manuscript for a publisher who wants the figures and
>>> tables to be placed at the end of the document, with something like "Figure
>>> X about here" in the body of the paper itself. I thought that the "Page of
>>> Floats" setting would accomplish this, but it seems to group all figures
>>> and tables into pages scattered throughout the document. (Except for the
>>> last table, which gets placed at the very end of the document, after the
>>> bibliography, in the middle of its own page.)
>>>
>>> I guess the solution that would definitely work would be to put all the
>>> float insets at the end manually, select "here definitely" for the
>>> positioning option, and then use cross-references to define the positioning
>>> of the "Figure X about here" tags. It just seems like there should be a
>>> more elegant way to accomplish this. Can the "page of floats" option be
>>> controlled somehow?
>>>
>>> Maria
>>>
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>>
>> --
>>
> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>>
>
> That wasn't exactly what I was after, since APAv6 comes with so many of
> its own formatting quirks I would have to undo that it would take five
> times as long as doing the float placement by hand.
>
> But, I dug around some more and found an elegant solution: the endfloat
> package. It did exactly what I needed in one line!
>
> https://ctan.org/pkg/endfloat
>
> Maria
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