<figure> – floating figure

Attributes:

xml:lang

human language (inherited)

id

unique name (identifier)

style/class

style properties and class (e.g. for CSS)

Possible Contents: graphics, caption?

Description: Encloses a figure and possibly a caption, that is then placed as a (numbered) float object. If you want to refer to a graphics by an id, give it's <figure> parent element that id.

If you have activated two-column printing for LaTeX output, tbook decides whether the float spans both columns or not.

Example

     <figure id="fig:overview">
       <graphics kind="bitmap" file="overview"/>
       <caption>An overview of the whole transformation
         process.</caption>
     </figure>