[texhax] captions and floats

[Lars Madsen]

Tom Sgouros :

>
> Hello all:
>
> In hunting through the memoir class, learning about captions, I found
> this code:
>
> \let\@memoldcaption\caption
> \def\caption{\donemaincaptiontrue\@memoldcaption}
>

save the old \caption in \@memoldcaption, then define a new which will set
\donemaincaption to true at the cerybeginning


> \let\@memold at caption\@caption
> \long\def\@caption#1[#2]#3{%
>  \M at gettitle{#2}\@memold at caption{#1}[#2]{#3}}
>

again same thing, redefine the normal caption to get some extra code into 
it.

it is very simple when you look at the code.

>
> Can someone explain to me what kind of trickery is going on here?  These
> both look circular to me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -tom
>
>
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