title: LaTeX: Large figure floats to the end of the chapter
body: <p>I have a LaTeX-document using the class</p>
  
  <pre><code>\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrbook}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I changed some parameters for positioning the floats:</p>
  
  <pre><code>\renewcommand{\topfraction}{1} %default: 0.7
  \renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{1} %default: 0.3
  \renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.1} %default: 0.2
  \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{1} %default: 0.6
  \setcounter{topnumber}{3}
  \setcounter{bottomnumber}{3}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have two graphics that should be among each other and fill one single page. I don't know why, but because LaTeX always splits both graphics on two pages, I put both graphics into one <code>figure</code>-environment. It doesn't matter whether I use <code>[ht]</code> or <code>[p]</code> the figure with both graphics moves to the end of the chapter. I don't get any overfull warnings. So I think it might not the reason that the figure is too large.</p>
  
  <pre><code>\begin{figure}[p]
  \centering
  \includegraphics{graphic1.pdf}
  \newcaption{caption 1} % &lt;-- using \usepackage{picins}
  \label{fig:pic1}
  
  \vspace{5mm}
  
  \includegraphics{graphic2.pdf}
  \newcaption{caption 2}
  \label{fig:pic2}
  \end{figure}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there someone, who can explain that behaviour of LaTeX and can recommend a solution.</p>