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  • 1.  Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook NG is "up-to-date"

    Posted 04-21-2005 18:06
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    Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook NG is "up-to-date"


    / "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> was heard to say:
    | Now that I think about it, I wonder if putting caption on mediaobject is the
    | right thing.  A mediaobject is a container for multiple _media_ objects, and
    | a caption is a separate element from those objects.  I don't think it should
    | be in the mediaobject container.  An alternative is to also allow caption on
    | informalfigure, informaltable, and informalexample, but not mediaobject.  I
    | have certainly seen a style where pictures have explanatory captions but no
    | title or number.  Then if someone wanted to add a caption but didn't want a
    | title, they could wrap the mediaobject and caption in an informalfigure or
    | informalexample.
    
    I thought about it a bit too and have, for the purposes of
    experimentation, put caption on mediaobject again, but also on figure,
    table, and example. It belongs on the informal* ones too.
    
    Then you can have
    
     Figure 1 This is a Figure Title
    
       [[some graphic]]
    
     This figure has a caption.
    
    And you can also have
    
     Figure 2 This is a Figure Title
    
       [[some graphic]]   [[some other graphic]]
       with a caption     with its own caption
    
     This figure has a caption too, which is probably a bit odd
    
    My vague recollection about why we put caption on media object was so
    that if a figure contained several graphics, they could each have a
    caption.
    
                                            Be seeing you,
                                              norm
    
    -- 
    Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Everything should be made as
    http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | simple as possible, but no simpler.
    Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
    

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