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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 7-5-1 on page I-562 in "hvfloat --- Sophisticated caption placement control and more".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% 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.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

  \hyphenation{con-sec-te-tuer}

  \setlength\textfloatsep{8pt}  % save some space in the example

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lipsum,float} \floatname{Img}{Image}
\floatstyle{ruled} \newfloat{Img}{ht}{los}
\usepackage{hvfloat}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1][1] See Image \ref{img:cat}.\par
\hvFloat{Img}{\includegraphics[scale=.5]{cat}}
        {A cat}{img:cat}
\hvFloat{figure}{\includegraphics[scale=.5]{cat}
                 \includegraphics[scale=.5]{cat}}
        {Two cats}{fig:2cats}
\lipsum*[2][1] \par
\end{document}