%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 6-3-3 on page 294.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\setlength\textheight{15.2\baselineskip}
\setlength\textfloatsep{12pt plus 4pt}
% for the book examples we shorten the
% vertical spaces and use a smaller font for
% the heading
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                       {-2.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                       {1.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
                       {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\newcommand\sample{Some text for our page
 that might get reused over and over again. }

\StartShownPreambleCommands
  \usepackage{graphicx,float}
  \floatstyle{boxed} \restylefloat{figure}
  \floatstyle{ruled} \restylefloat{table}
  \floatplacement{table}{b}
  % \sample as previously defined
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
  \section{Customizing standard floats}
  \sample
  \begin{table}
   \begin{tabular}{@{}llr}
    AAAA&BBBB&123\\CCC&DDDD&45\end{tabular}
   \caption{Sample table}
  \end{table}
  \sample
  \begin{figure} \centering
   \includegraphics[width=12mm]{rosette.ps}
   \caption{Sample figure}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}