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Question

I am using the TikZ package to create braids for my 4th year project.

But everytime I hit the button to run the code, my braid jumps to the top of the page rather than sitting where I want it.

Can anyone help?

I am using the following packages,

\usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amsthm, amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{braids}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}

    \centering
        \begin{tikzpicture}
            \braid[rotate=90, line width=.4mm] a_1 a_2 a_2 a_1 a_2^-1;
        \end{tikzpicture}

    Figure~1 shows an example of a $3$-braid.
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Welcome to LaTeX Stack Exchange! Please add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. — , Nov 25 '13 at 12:52
Welcome to TeX.SX. A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, then they're marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button ({}) or hit Ctrl+K. — Claudio Fiandrino, Nov 25 '13 at 12:52
Sounds like a variant of "figures have a tendency to surprise, by floating away". See the FAQ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floats. — Ulrike Fischer, Nov 25 '13 at 12:55
What do you mean by I hit the play button? Can you please elaborate? — , Nov 25 '13 at 12:56
I tend to agree with Ulrike: that's why the tag [tag:floats] seems to me appropriate. — Claudio Fiandrino, Nov 25 '13 at 13:02
\begin{figure}[htp] will first try placing the figure at the spot. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017 and http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2275 — egreg, Nov 25 '13 at 13:32
@HarishKumar The compile button in TeXworks is a green arrow, sort of like a play button. — Torbjørn T., Nov 25 '13 at 13:42
In addition to the floating issue, avoid numbering things by hand: use \caption{an example of a $3$-braid} (or if you decide yo make it not a float. just remove the figure environment and use \captionof{figure}{an example of a $3$-braid} (capt-of package) — David Carlisle, Nov 25 '13 at 13:43
Yeah sorry, I meant the compile button.
I managed to sort it using [htp] Thanks guys, I've not long started using Latex — Christopher Geddes, Nov 25 '13 at 13:44

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