<refentry id="figure.default.position">

  <refmeta>

    <refentrytitle>figure.default.position</refentrytitle>

  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>

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

    <refpurpose>Figure float placement policy</refpurpose>

  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>

    <programlisting>

      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" parse="text" href="syn/figure.default.position.xml"/>

    </programlisting>

  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsection>

    <title>Description</title>

    <para>Default figure float placement algorithm to apply. The default

parameter value is [htbp] meaning that latex tries to place the figure where

it occurs first (h, here), then at the top of the page (t), at the bottom of

the page (b), and finally on the next page (p).</para>

  </refsection>

</refentry>