On Wed, 27 May 2015, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Note that latex allows only a fixed number of floats per page. By default, this is 3 but this number is stored in a counter and it can be changed.
Enrico, Each float occupies about a half-page. There would be room for the figure and accompanying text on a page, or two figures on a page, but that's not how LaTeX is composing the page. One per page is the result, no text on that page, either. Strange. I think the most parsimonius solution is to restructure the manual so each related set of floats are in separate sections rather than sub-sections. Thanks, Rich