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papaja: controlling text spacing when placing floats H

I am using the great papaja package to create a manuscript. I want to place figures in the text (floatsintext: yes) AND I want them to appear exactly where specified.

To achieve the latter, I followed this advice to add the following to the YAML:

header-includes: #allows you to add in your own Latex packages
- \usepackage{float} #use the 'float' package
- \floatplacement{figure}{H} #make every figure with caption = h

This puts the figures where I want, but the text spacing is set to use the entire page. I would prefer that the preceding text uses the space from top to bottom, leaving the whitespace at the bottom of the page before the figure.

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---
title             : "The title"
shorttitle        : "Title"

author: 
  - name          : "First Author"
    affiliation   : "1"
    corresponding : yes    # Define only one corresponding author
    address       : "Postal address"
    email         : "[email protected]"
  - name          : "Ernst-August Doelle"
    affiliation   : "1,2"

affiliation:
  - id            : "1"
    institution   : "Wilhelm-Wundt-University"
  - id            : "2"
    institution   : "Konstanz Business School"

authornote: |
  Add complete departmental affiliations for each author here. Each new line herein must be indented, like this line.

  Enter author note here.

abstract: |

keywords          : "keywords"
wordcount         : "X"

bibliography      : ["r-references.bib"]

floatsintext      : yes
figurelist        : no
tablelist         : no
footnotelist      : no
linenumbers       : yes
mask              : no
draft             : no

documentclass     : "apa6"
classoption       : "man,noextraspace"
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{pdfpages}
  - \usepackage{setspace}
  - \AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\singlespacing}
  - \makeatletter\let\expandableinput\@@input\makeatother
  - \interfootnotelinepenalty=10000
  - \usepackage{float} #use the 'float' package
  - \floatplacement{figure}{H} #make every figure with caption = h
output            : papaja::apa6_pdf
---

```{r setup, include = FALSE}
library("papaja")
```

```{r analysis-preferences}
# Seed for random number generation
set.seed(42)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache.extra = knitr::rand_seed)
```

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Solution

  • The documentclass you are using seems to have \flushbottom active, which will ensure that all pages have the same bootom line. This is usually done in things like books etc.

    If you don't want this, you can use the \raggedbottom macro.