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Why doesn't font family change take effect when using AtBeginEnvironment{figure} together with memoir?

I'm trying to use \AtBeginEnvironment{figure} to customize the font family and font size used in figures. However, it doesn't seem to have any effect. Here is a minimal example: ...
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Shortcut commands for referencing floats

I always include the following commands in the preamble of my latex documents to make sure I refer to floats consistently in the text. I was wondering if the community had any thoughts about this, is ...
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What is a BANG float?

This question follows up on What is the exact purpose of \ftype@<TYPE>?. The LaTeX kernel source refers to a BANG float in the ltoutput.dtx, but there is no explanation for it. Anybody knows ...
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What is the exact purpose of \ftype@<TYPE>?

I currently working on some float related code an saw that the standard float environments figure and table define (beside others) the macros \def\ftype@figure{1} and \def\ftype@table{2}. The LaTeX ...
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Renew command begin figure? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Macro for figure position? Is it possible to make change that changes all instances of \begin{figure} into \begin{figure}[h] ?
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Macro for figure position?

Why is the following minimal example not working? I.e., what do I need to do, in order to define the float placement specifier of a figure within a macro? (I know that I should use \newcommand, but ...
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How exactly does \def\p@figure{Figure~} work?

I took this line from my thesis style and added it into my document (preceded by \makeatletter) and what it does that whenever I used \ref{figureid} instead of putting just the figure number, it puts ...