@float [type][,label]: Floating Material ¶To produce floating material, enclose the material you want to be
displayed separate between @float and @end float
commands, on lines by themselves.
Floating material often uses @image to display an
already-existing graphic (see Inserting Images), or @multitable to
display a table (see @multitable: Multi-column Tables). However, the contents
of the float can be anything. Here’s an example with simple text:
@float Figure,fig:ex1 This is an example float. @end float
And the output:
This is an example float.
Figure 9.1
As shown in the example, @float takes two arguments (separated
by a comma), type and label. Both are optional.
Specifies the sort of float this is; typically a word such as “Figure”, “Table”, etc. If this is not given, and label is, any cross-referencing will simply use a bare number.
Specifies a cross-reference label for this float. If given, this
float is automatically given a number, and will appear in any
@listoffloats output (see @listoffloats: Tables of Contents for Floats). Cross
references to label are allowed. For example,
‘see @ref{fig:ex1}’ will produce see Figure 9.1.
On the other hand, if label is not given, then the float will
not be numbered and consequently will not appear in the
@listoffloats output or be cross-referenceable.
Ordinarily, you specify both type and label, to get a labeled and numbered float.
In the LaTeX output, code loading the float package is
output in the preamble if @float are present.
A @float with type ‘figure’ or ‘table’
(case insensitive) is already defined by the package. Other
float types lead to the definition of a new float environment,
with names based on the @float type with anything else
than letters and ‘-’ removed.
In Texinfo, all floats are numbered in the same way: with the chapter number (or appendix letter), a period, and the float number, which simply counts 1, 2, 3, …, and is reset at each chapter. Each float type is counted independently.
Floats within an @unnumbered, or outside of any chapter, are
simply numbered consecutively from 1.
These numbering conventions are not, at present, changeable.