title: How to prevent text from creeping in between figures and tables
body: <p>I have a question on floats in LaTeX, such as figures in tables. In my document, I have a section of consecutive images and tables that runs across several pages. I would like to keep this section free from the text of the following chapters. However, since the images and tables don't fill up the entire pages, some lines of text are placed at the bottom of the page, which is very irritating, because the text has nothing to do with the images and tables. </p>
  
  <p>The float objects are defined like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>\begin{figure}[!htb]
      \centering 
      \includegraphics[width=0.80\textwidth]{./img/img1.jpg}
      \caption{cap1}
  \end{figure}
  
  \begin{figure}[!htb]
      \centering 
      \includegraphics[width=0.80\textwidth]{./img/img2.jpg}
      \caption{cap2}
  \end{figure}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>....</p>
  
  <p>I presume I have to tweak the [!htb] parameters in the first line of each float section, but I am not sure in which way. 
  Any ideas anyone? </p>