The `Figure` and `Table` environments

The geom style supports the figure and table environments of standard , and, as mentioned above, if you use the \caption command you don't have to worry about fragile macros inside its argument. However, I recommend that you use instead the new Figure and Table environments, which provide some bells and whistles.

These environments take three arguments: a cross-reference label, a title and a legend (or explanatory caption). The command

\begin{Figure}{torus}{The square torus}
{A torus can be obtained, topologically,
by gluing together parallel sides of a square.}
$$
\begin{picture}(1,1)
...     % lots of \put commands
\end{picture}
$$
\end{Figure}

prints
$\begin{Figure}{torus}{The square torus} {A torus can be obtained, topologically,... ...r(0,1){1}} \put(0,1){\vector(1,0){1}} \end{picture}\end{displaymath}\end{Figure}$

and in addition it creates a cross-reference label torus and an entry in the table of contents with the text ``The square torus''. As you can see, the figure number and the title appear in boldface, the legend in a lighter face. In proofing mode (Proofing Aids), the file name also appears under the figure, in tiny letters. If you don't want a legend, just write {} after the first two arguments. (In other words, the legend is not an optional argument—it is simply an argument that sometimes happens to be empty.) There is an optional argument to the \Figure environment, consisting of a subset of the letters htbp and indicating a location where the figure may be placed [#!Lamport!#, 176]; it should come before all other arguments. All of this applies to the Table environment as well.

The Figure and Table environments

The `Figure` and `Table` environments