[O] Float placement in org-latex

[Pete Ley]

Just a quick question for someone new to and quickly becoming enamored
with org-latex-export. 

I'm encountering a problem with my floats. Namely, I have a section with
not much text and several floats, it's probably about a page worth of
actual text and 7-10 gnuplot-generated graph images. I have the gnuplot
code inline in the text and the images are included from the #+RESULTS. 

My problem is that LaTeX keeps pushing them farther down the page until
some of them are at the end, after the appendices. Is there a way I can
maybe shrink the images to make them fit or force it to render them
inline even if it leaves some blank space on the page? I wouldn't mind
making them all quite small and having text flow around them but I'd
rather not have to put in these settings for each and every graph. Can I
do this as a default setting for all of them?

Is there a set of best practices for this kind of thing? Sorry if this
is a beginner question, but I haven't had much luck searching.