Like in an academic paper or a book, as in Latex or Word or any other decent word processor. Say I want the figure to be a block that appears at the top or bottom of some page (although it may have other figures above or below it), ideally a page close to the anchor point that I choose. Normal text doesn't overlap the figure.
How is that not a float?
A CSS float floats right or left, trying to preserve its vertical position as much as possible in the process.
A TeX float (what roc is looking for here) has no horizontal position because it is the width of the page. Its floating is done vertically -- it floats to a page break. It's a little complicated in full detail, but that's the gist of it.
So what roc is looking for is a way to say: "put this block at the top of a page; preferably the top of the page that this anchor point is in, but it can slip down to later pages".
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