Is there a way to get LaTeX to place figures in the same page as a reference to that figure?

Question

I am using LaTeX and the figure environment.

I am well familiar with the parameters to that environment: [htbp], and I am also generally familiar with the strategies tha

Answer 1

I have some useful comments. Because I had similar problem with location of figures. I used package "wrapfig" that allows to make figures wrapped by text. Something like

...
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
...
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{53pt}
\includegraphics[width=53pt]{cone.pdf}
\end{wrapfigure}

In options {r} means to put figure from right side. {l} can be use for left side.