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diff --git a/documentation.typ b/documentation.typ
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--- a/documentation.typ
+++ b/documentation.typ
@@ -187,13 +187,18 @@ References to individual examples can be achieved using the `label` argument and
 #numbered-gloss(
     header: [Middle Welsh; modified from _Grammatical number in Welsh_ (1999) by Silva Nurmio (§~2.1.1)],
     source: ([ac], [ny], [allvs], [y], [dewinyon], [atteb], [idav]),
-		morphemes: ([and], [#neg], [be_able.#smallcaps[pret].3#sg], [#smallcaps[def]], [sorcerer.#pl], [answer.#smallcaps[inf]], [to.3#sg.#smallcaps[m]]),
+    morphemes: ([and], [#neg], [be_able.#smallcaps[pret].3#sg], [#smallcaps[def]], [sorcerer.#pl], [answer.#smallcaps[inf]], [to.3#sg.#smallcaps[m]]),
     translation: [and the sorcerers could not answer him],
-		label: \"sorcerers\",
+    label: \"sorcerers\",
+    label-supplement: [Example]
 )
 
 As we have seen in @sorcerers, […].", addl-bindings: (neg: neg, sg: sg, pl: pl))
 
+Labeling uses the Typst #link("https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/figure/")[figure] document element. The `label-supplement`
+parameter fills in the `suppliment` parameter of a `figure`, which is `[example]` by default.
+
+
 == Styling lines of a gloss
 
 Each of the aforementioned text parameters has a corresponding style parameter,
diff --git a/leipzig-gloss.typ b/leipzig-gloss.typ
index 6088a8f..0ad501b 100644
--- a/leipzig-gloss.typ
+++ b/leipzig-gloss.typ
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #import "abbreviations.typ"
 
 #let gloss-count = counter("gloss_count")
-#let cmdlabel = label // a workround so we can use `label` as a variable name
 
 #let build_gloss(item-spacing, formatters, gloss_line_lists) = {
     assert(gloss_line_lists.len() > 0, message: "Gloss line lists cannot be empty")
@@ -35,6 +34,10 @@
     }
 }
 
+// a workround so we can use `label` as a variable name where it is shadowed by the function param `label`
+// Once typst version 0.12 with https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/4038 is released we should be able
+// to replace this workaround with `std.label`
+#let cmdlabel = label 
 
 #let gloss(
     header: none,
@@ -49,6 +52,7 @@
     translation: none,
     translation-style: none,
     label: none,
+    label-supplement: [example],
 
     item-spacing: 1em,
     gloss-padding: 2.0em, //TODO document these
@@ -124,8 +128,8 @@
     style(styles => {
         block(breakable: breakable)[
             #figure(
-                kind: "lingexample",
-                supplement: [Example],
+                kind: "ling-example",
+                supplement: label-supplement,
                 numbering: it => [#gloss-count.display()],
                 stack(
                     dir: ltr, //TODO this needs to be more flexible