%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 7-4-6 on page I-547 in "Continuing captions across floats".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{103.80106pt}


  \tolerance=3000
  \setlength\textheight{13\baselineskip}
  \setlength\footskip{16pt}

% make the heading a bit smaller in the examples
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
                                    {-1.25ex \@plus-1ex \@minus-.2ex}%
                                    {.5ex}%
                                    {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\makeatother

\pagestyle{origplain} % plain is disabled by the class

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{graphicx,caption}
\DeclareCaptionTextFormat{cont}
                         {#1 (cont.)}
\captionsetup[ContinuedFloat]
             {textformat=cont,list=no}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\listoffigures  \bigskip
\begin{figure}[!b]
  \centering \includegraphics{cat}
  \caption{Animals}
\end{figure}
A figure placed at the page bottom and
continued at the top of the next page.
The caption appears only once in the LOF.
\begin{figure}[!t]     \ContinuedFloat
 \centering \includegraphics
              [width=2cm]{elephant}
 \caption{Animals}
\end{figure}
\end{document}