%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 7-5-8 on page I-566 in "Subfloat and multifloat pages".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{79.2008pt}
\addtolength\textwidth{3pt}
\setlength\textheight{11\baselineskip}
\setlength\textfloatsep{8pt plus 3pt}
\setlength\floatsep{4pt}
\sloppy
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lipsum,hvfloat}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\hvFloat[multiFloat,
capFormat={singlelinecheck=false}]
+{figure}{\includegraphics[scale=.5]{cat}}
{Cat}{fig:cat}
+{figure}{\includegraphics[width=2cm]{elephant}}
{Elephant}{fig:elephant}
+{figure}{\includegraphics[]{cat}
\includegraphics[scale=1.1]{cat}}
{Two cats}{fig:2cats}
\lipsum[1][1-2]
\end{document}