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<refentrytitle>table.default.position</refentrytitle>
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<refname><parameter>table.default.position</parameter></refname>
<refpurpose>Default table float placement policy</refpurpose>
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<title>Description</title>
<para>Default table float placement algorithm. The value
must contain enclosing square braces (<literal>[]</literal>).
Order is significant, the first match which produces acceptable
output is used.</para>
<para id="float-placement-choices">The meaning of the characters are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>h</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Meaning: <quote>here</quote></para>
<para>Place the float where it occurs in the DocBook source.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>t</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Meaning: <quote>top</quote></para>
<para>Place the float at the top of the page.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>b</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Meaning: <quote>bottom</quote></para>
<para>Place the float at the bottom of the page.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>p</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>Meaning: <quote>page</quote></para>
<para>Place the float on a special page just for floats.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
Any of the characters may be followed by an exclamation
point (<literal>!</literal>) to force LaTeX to be more aggressive
when trying the placement algorithm.</para>
<para>The default value is <literal>[htbp]</literal>.</para>
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