It's a simple question: I'd like to put figure on the bottom of the page, but above footnote. I'm using memoir, but with documentclass{article} the result is the same.  Example:  \documentclass[article]{memoir}  \begin{document} Some text\footnote{The footnote}  \begin{figure}[b] \vspace{2cm} \caption{Bild 2} \end{figure}  \end{document}   I don't want to use a process of trial and error for each figure in my document, "hacking" the position option with an [h].
How can I prohibit putting figure after the footnote? I have pretty simple LaTeX code that has a lot of figure environments, and I see the figure is inserted after the footnote.   \documentclass[10pt, onepage]{article}  \usepackage{graphics,graphicx} \usepackage{hyperref}  ... dependent code\footnote{You should use at least JRE 1.5 or later, but I highly recommend using JRE 1.6 or later}, you can safely use the JRE 1.5 or later.   \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{pic_install/4_configure_build_path.png} \caption{Configuration menu} \label{fig:config_build} \end{figure}
In an electromagnetic theory class, my professor introduced the concept of "action at a distance in physics". He said that:     If two charges are at some very large distance, and if any one of the charge moves, then the force associated with the charges changes instantaneously.   But according to Einstein, no information can travel faster than the speed of light.   So photons (the information carriers in electromagnetic force) cannot instantaneously deliver information.   So that we associate a field with the two charges and if any charge moves, there is a deformation in that field and this deformation travels with the speed of light and conveys the information.   If the field deformation information cannot travel more than the speed of light, how does the force instantaneously change at very large distances? I think everybody with a history of participation can't help but notice the explosive growth of repeated duplicate questions. The work of looking for duplicates and then closing questions has overtaken the work of actually answering questions.  It's become virtually impossible to ask something which hasn't been yet asked. Lately I feel boredom each time I see a new question and start answering it only to realize after the first written sentence that I have answered similar questions five times over or seen them answered some ten times or more. I know where it's going to be going and what answers with what votes it is going to receive before any answer is even written.  It's obviously not the administration's fault, it is simply so. The questions is, what to do about it? Engaging more moderators to close and close duplicates won't work because it's already starting to repel users who get mad at their questions closed and become afraid of asking more or perhaps just go away.  The original idea of Jeff stated the the site is for questions that can be answered. Meaning no open-ended discussions. When I first read this I had a casual thought - well, and what's gonna happen when they all are asked and answered? Will it become a museum, a monument of wisdom and knowledge or what?  I'm not sure what to do about it. Perhaps deprecation/versioning of older questions so that their new versions can sparkle the tiresome evening...  POSTSCRIPTUM.  I recall Star Trek Voyager episode  when another Q asked Captain Janeway for asylum. He was tired of immortality and wanted to die. They opened a hearing and went on to visit the continuum to evaluate the living conditions there which caused the suffering and the wish to escape it in death. A lifeless picture presented itself to the visitors... a house lone in an open space, two people going about their business, nobody talking. When asked why they were silent, the following was said. It's been so long, all has already been said, all stories told, all jokes are made... there is nothing left to do...  Are we there as well?  UPDATE: Just saw this answer in another question:       Also, some of the core questions got asked early on in the life of the site. Great questions still come around from time to time, but many have already been asked.   Doesn't that confirm my point? Excel How to make Text Qualifier editable or add a new entry in the existing list? How to export variable for use with sudo? On Slackware, using sbopkg permits one to build a package from source. Repos is not big as Debian, but it's nice.  Some software can use environment variables, for example on the VICE c64 emulator, if the variable FFMPEG is set to yes, it will enable ffmpeg recording the emulator.  I tried to use  $ export FFMPEG=yes; sudo sbopkg -B -i vice   but ffmpeg is disabled.  Instead I had to use  $ su - $ export FFMPEG=yes $ sbopkg -B -i vice   which works.  How to use environment variables with sudo? Necessary and Sufficient conditions for $(i \, j)$ and $(1 \, 2 \, \dotsc \, n)$ generate $S_n$. I have a homework question that asks     Find necessary and sufficient conditions on $1 \leq i &lt; j \leq n$ so that $(i \, j)$ and $(1 \, 2 \, \dotsc \, n)$ generate $S_n$.   Here is what I have done so far.  Call $c = (1 \, 2 \, \dotsc \, n)$.  I made the observation that $$ \overbrace{c c \dotsb c}^{n - j + 1} (i \, j) \overbrace{c^{-1} c^{-1} \dotsb c^{-1}}^{n - j + 1} = (1 + i - j + n \, 1). $$ Thus, $\langle (i \, j), c \rangle = \langle (1 \, i - j + n + 1), c \rangle$, so it suffices to look at $\langle (1 \, k), c \rangle$ for positive integers $2 \leq k \leq n$.  I've checked that, for the value $k=2$, $\langle (1 \, 2), c \rangle = S_n$.  This immediately implies $\langle (1 \, n), c \rangle = S_n$.  I suspect that no other values of $k$ will work, but am not sure how to prove it. Show that the condition number of an invertible matrix must be at least 1. What matrices have  condition number equal to 1.  If someone could help me with this and give an explanation that would be very helpful. I do not know where to start Infinite set and countable subsets Prove that a set $A$ is infinite if and only if $A$ contains a countable subset $C$. I know I have to build a sequence and then I'll get a countable subset, but I don't know how to build that sequence from a infinite set. What does kill 0 do actually? In the man page, it says:  kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ...  pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal.  Each pid can be one of five things:           0      All processes in the current process group are signaled   And I tried like this in bash:  $ man kill &amp; [1] 15247 $ [1]+  Stopped                 man kill $ kill 0 $ ps 15247 pts/41   00:00:00 man   Here 0 is used as pid. As I understood, kill 0 will kill all processes in the current process, which includes pid15247. However, it didn't do anything in this example. Does anyone have ideas about how to use it? Is there a particle called a "tachyon" that can travel faster than light?  If so, would Einstein's relativity be wrong?  According to Einstein no particle can travel faster than light. Is uncertainty principle a technical difficulty in measurement? Is the uncertainty principle a technical difficulty in measurement or is it an intrinsic concept in quantum mechanics irrelevant of any measurement?  Everyone knows the thought experiment of measuring the position of an electron. One can detect electron's position by hitting it with a photon, due to Compton scattering the collision of the photon with electron will change electron's momentum. This experiment is used to explain uncertainty principle to layman, but it is over simplified, isn't it? It also gives an impression that if there was a better suited experimental method the uncertainty principle becomes irrelevant.   I personally think it is intrinsic as it arises from the non-zero commutator of position and momentum operators irrespective of the measurement process. Am I right?  EDIT: My question is similar to certain extent to  and . The answers there are nice but they focus on explaining basics of quantum mechanics more than they comment on the technical difficulty part. In the answers of question 2 there are statements like "So, it's not a knowledge limit" and "you're sort of correct when you say it's an observational limit" without further comments  To summarize, assume hypothetically we managed to find a way in the future where we can have a look at an electron without disturbing it by measurement or causing its wave function to collapse, would the uncertainty principle still hold in such a case?? Why/Why not? INC instruction vs ADD 1: Does it matter? My keyboard is typing by itself, could there be a ghost in it? I've lost my original power adapter, and I can't find the proper one in any of the stores currently available.  I've HP Compaq 6730b, and as per  it outputs 18.5V 3.5A. However, I've found an older power adapter I have which outputs 19.5V 4.62 A.  So, my question is: how much of a difference between those two it really is, and more importantly, how much of a risk would it be if I tried the power adapter I already have.  P.S. I know pretty much nothing about electricity/electronics. General relativity (gravitation) in time and one spatial dimension I don't have any idea of general relativity but intend to learn. Is it a good idea to study general relativity in two dimensions (time and single spatial dimension) in the begining to get good idea on the subject? If it is, then please give some references for such a treatment. automatic size adjustment for nested parentheses As I prefer outer parentheses to grow larger in nested expressions, I happen to insert \bigl and \bigr and its larger cousins a lot. I have always wondered whether there is a way to do this automagically.  Inserting \left and \right prophylacticly before all opening and closing parentheses and hoping that it sorts things out doesn't do the trick in all cases as seen below.  The left column is without any size changing commands. The middle column as a \left \right pair at every parentheses/brace/bracket and the rightmost column shows my preferred version.    As seen in the middle column of the second and third line the \left and \right pair sometimes makes the outer parentheses larger, on the cost of an extra horizontal space between \Pr and (. The extra space is fine in case of really big opening parentheses but here I'd prefer the regular spacing.  \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \begin{document} \begin{align*} &amp;1-(1-F(x))^n&amp;&amp;1-\left(1-F(x)\right)^n&amp;&amp;1-\bigl(1-F(x)\bigr)^n\\ &amp;\Pr(X_{(1)}\le x)&amp;&amp;\Pr\left(X_{(1)}\le x\right)&amp;&amp;\Pr\bigl(X_{(1)}\le x\bigr)\\ &amp;\mathbb{E}[\min\{X_1,X_2\}]&amp;&amp;\mathbb{E}\left[\min\left\{X_1,X_2\right\}\right]&amp;&amp;\mathbb{E}\bigl[\min\left\{X_1,X_2\right\}\bigr]\\ &amp;\left(\pi-\arccos(\frac{y}{r})\right)&amp;&amp;(\pi-\arccos\left(\frac{y}{r}\right))&amp;&amp;\left(\pi-\arccos \left(\frac{y}{r}\right)\right) \end{align*} \end{document}   As mathematical expressions can be arbitrarly complex there is probably no general way to do this. But I’m not asking for a solution of the general case. A partial solution that works in the simple cases shown above would be a big help. The simple rule could be, that parentheses never shrink below the size of an inner pair. Of course you can immediately think of extensions like a \mid in a conditional expectation that grows with the size of the expectation’s brackets.  What is your preference regarding the size of nested parentheses? Is there a better way to archieve your preferred style despite inserting \bigl \bigr manually?    EDIT:  A colleague pointed me to section 8.3 of Herbert Voß’  document where size problems with parentheses are solved by playing with two TeX parameters within a group around the expression in question. This led naturally to appendix G of the TeXbook where the mechanics of \delimitershortfall and \delimiterfactor are explained.  \delimitershortfall specifies the maximum space not covered by a delimiter (default 5pt) and \delimiterfactor is the ratio for variable delimiters, times 1000 (default 901).  I used them to implement the never shrink below a subformular size idea from above by setting the shortfall to 0pt and the ratio to 1.0.    While it works nicely in line one and three, in line two and four the parentheses now grow too much, and still there is the extra horizontal space introduced by \left. Let $X\sim B(n,p_h)$ and $Y\sim B(n,p_\ell)$ be two random variables following a respective binomial distribution, where $p_h&gt;p_\ell$. I want to show that  $$P(X\ge\alpha)\ge P(Y\ge\alpha),$$ for any $\alpha\in\{0,1,\dots,n\}$. In other words, I want to show  $$P(X\ge\alpha)=\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_h^i(1-p_h)^{n-i}\ge P(Y\ge\alpha)=\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_\ell^i(1-p_\ell)^{n-i}.$$  The statement to be proven is obviously true, but proving it is extremely difficult (at least for me). Can anyone give me some guidance on proving it?  It would be nice if someone can give an algebraic proof too, that is, show that  $$\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_h^i(1-p_h)^{n-i}\ge \sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_\ell^i(1-p_\ell)^{n-i}.$$  Thank you very much! The standard titlepage is quite simple. I am looking for a very  and need help customizing my title page.  It should match the  classicthesis doctoral thesis template  Below a minimal working example:   \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,footinclude=true,twoside,headinclude=true]{scrbook} \XeTeXinputencoding iso-8859-1 \usepackage[marginparsep=8pt,left=3.5cm,right=3.5cm,top=3cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry}  \usepackage[parts,pdfspacing,dottedtoc]{classicthesis}    \frontmatter  \begin{document}     \pagestyle{scrheadings}        %this is the place to set up my cover sheet.       %*******************************************************      % Abstract     %*******************************************************    %\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract}    \pdfbookmark[1]{Résumé}{Résumé}   \begingroup    \let\clearpage\relax    \let\cleardoublepage\relax    \let\cleardoublepage\relax       \chapter{Résumé}     Résumé de la thèse en français\dots      \vfill      \chapter*{Summary}   Résumé de la thèse en anglais\dots    \endgroup             \vfill     \end{document} Found the following in an Oracle-based application that we're migrating (generalized):  SELECT     Table1.Category1,     Table1.Category2,     count(*) as Total,     count(Tab2.Stat) AS Stat FROM Table1, Table2 WHERE (Table1.PrimaryKey = Table2.ForeignKey(+)) GROUP BY Table1.Category1, Table1.Category2   What does (+) do in a WHERE clause? I've never seen it used like that before. The -k option (or --convert-link) will convert links in your web pages to relative after the download finishes, such as the man page says:     After the download is complete,   convert the links in the document to   make them suitable for local viewing.   This affects not only the visible   hyperlinks, but any part of the   document that links to external   content, such as embedded images,   links to style sheets, hyperlinks to   non-HTML content, etc.   So, if I didn't specify -k, can I run wget again after the download and fix that, and if so, what would be the proper command? My guess is wget -c [previous options used] [url] and run it in the same working directory as the file were downloaded to. Case insensitive searching in Oracle