The name of the game

The macros which make up the FLOATFIG style option are based on PLAIN-TEX macros developed by Thomas Reid (TUGBoat Vol. 8 # 3 page 315), who pointed out how to set figures right justified with paragraphs floating around them. For such objects Th. Reid has chosen the term `Floating Figures'.

This choice might cause some confusion, when we adapt these macros for L^ATEX, since Leslie Lamport uses the term `float' for objects which are realized as TEX-\inserts. While L. Lamports floats are floating in `main vertical list', floats introduced by Th. Reid are floating in paragraphs. For the following we adopt the latter meaning.