%%
%% 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}