<refentry id="example.float.type">

  <refmeta>

    <refentrytitle>example.float.type</refentrytitle>

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  <refnamediv>

    <refname><parameter>example.float.type</parameter></refname>

    <refpurpose>Select the type of float for example elements</refpurpose>

  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>

    <programlisting>

      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" parse="text" href="syn/example.float.type.xml"/></programlisting>

  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsection>

    <title>Description</title>

    <para>Selects the type of float for example elements.

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    <listitem>

    <para>If <parameter>example.float.type</parameter> is “none”, then no float is used. It may be usefull when the example must be displayed exactly where it is defined or when it must cover several pages.</para>

    </listitem>

    <listitem>

    <para>If <parameter>example.float.type</parameter> is "float”, then the float environment is used. The actual float placement is computed by latex according to the <sgmltag>floatstyle</sgmltag> attribute if specified, or according to the <parameter>example.default.position</parameter> parameter.</para>

    </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    </para>

  </refsection>

  <refsection>

    <title>See Also</title>

    <para><parameter>example.default.position</parameter>.</para>

    <para><parameter>figure.default.position</parameter>.</para>

  </refsection>

</refentry>