Adjusting figure on page

[Aleksandar Kanchev <kanchev@in.tum.de>]

Hello list,

I have couple of paragraphs, followed by a figure followed by more
paragraphs. Since I want PDF output I convert the docbook document to FO
and then to PDF using fop. The problem is that after the first
paragraphs the space left on the page is a little smaller than the space
needed for the figure, so a big white space is left on the page and the
figure is moved automatically to the next page followed by the remaining
paragraphs. I actually expected that the figure will be shifted before
or after the preceding or following paragraphs respectively, so that the
page's empty space is used as much as possible. Why is this happening?
Am I missing some docbook/xsl parameter?

best regards,
Aleksandar