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<H2 CLASS="section"><A NAME="htoc97">B.9</A>  Figures and Other Floating Bodies</H2><P>Figures and tables are put where they appear in source, regardless of
their placement arguments.
They are outputed inside a <CODE>BLOCKQUOTE</CODE> element and they are
separated from enclosing text by two
horizontal rules.</P><P>Captions and cross referencing are handled.
However captions are not moved at end of figures: instead, they appear
where the <CODE>\caption</CODE> commands occur in source code.
The <CODE>\suppressfloats</CODE> command does nothing and the
figure related counters (such as <CODE>topnumber</CODE>) exist but are useless.</P><P><A NAME="@default173"></A><A NAME="@default174"></A><A NAME="@default175"></A></P><DIV CLASS="fmarginpar marginparright">Marginal notes go in the right margin by default.</DIV><DIV CLASS="fmarginpar marginparleft">To get marginal notes in the left margin, use
<TT>\reversemaginpar</TT>.</DIV><P>
Marginal notes are handled in an H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A specific way.
By default, all notes go in the right margin.
Issuing <CODE>\reversemarginpar</CODE> causes the notes to go in the left
margin. Unsurprisingly, issuing <CODE>\normalmarginpar</CODE> reverts to
default behavior.</P><P>The <CODE>\marginpar</CODE> command has an optional argument.
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  <CODE>\marginpar[</CODE><I>left_text</I><CODE>]{</CODE><I>right_text</I><CODE>}</CODE>
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If optional argument <I>left_text</I> is present and that notes
go in the left margin, then <I>left_text</I> is the text of the
note. Otherwise, <I>right_text</I> is the text of the note.
As a conclusion, marginal notes in H<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>V<FONT SIZE=2><sup>E</sup></FONT>A always go to a fixed side
of the page, which side being controlled by the commands
<CODE>\normalmarginpar</CODE> (right side) and <CODE>\reversemarginpar</CODE>
(left side). This departs form L<sup>A</sup>T<sub>E</sub>X that selects a default side
depending on the parity of the page counter.</P><P>Marginal notes are styled by the means of two environment style
classes (see Section <A HREF="manual019.html#css:change">9.3</A>) :
<CODE>marginpar</CODE> and <CODE>marginparside</CODE>.
The latter <CODE>marginparside</CODE> takes care of margins and placement as
a float, its value is <CODE>marginparright</CODE> for notes in the right
margin and <CODE>marginparleft</CODE> for notes in the left margin.
Users are not expected to alter those.
The <CODE>marginpar</CODE> environment style class governs the general
aspect of all marginal notes.
Users can control the aspect of all marginal notes by defining a new
style class and assigning the <CODE>marginpar</CODE> environment style
class.
For instance, to get all marginal notes in red font,
and taking 10% of the page width (in place of the default
20%),
one can issue the following commands in the document preamble.
</P><PRE CLASS="verbatim">\newstyle{.mynote}{width:10\%; color:red;}
\setenvclass{marginpar}{mynote}
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