Re: [docbook-apps] How to make chemical structure automatically numbered

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

I.e. Semantically marked up docbook is clearly the wrong tool then.

Dave
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 14:20, Peter Desjardins
<peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the table is adding valid semantic structure here. It allows the figure numbering to exist at the Docbook level, not in SVG.
>
> Maybe use <figure> elements inside an <informaltable>? You could wrap the informaltable in an example to give the entire set of diagrams a title.
>
> Peter
>
>   <informaltable>
>     <tgroup cols="2">
>       <tbody>
>         <row>
>           <entry><figure>
>               <title>Chemical One</title>
>               <mediaobject>
>                 <imageobject>
>                   <imagedata fileref="1.svg"/>
>                 </imageobject>
>               </mediaobject>
>             </figure></entry>
>
>           <entry><figure>
>               <title>Chemical Two</title>
>               <mediaobject>
>                 <imageobject>
>                   <imagedata fileref="2.svg"/>
>                 </imageobject>
>               </mediaobject>
>             </figure></entry>
>         </row>
>       </tbody>
>     </tgroup>
>   </informaltable>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 08:28 Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2018, 14:12:15 CEST schrieb Bernhard Kleine:
>> > In my second mail to this threat a showed a complex table with
>> > structures, arrows labeling etc. I cannot envisage this without a table
>> > structure.
>>
>> As Dave already pointed out, a table might not be the appropriate way to
>> layout things.
>>
>> Have you considered SVG? With SVG (or any other vector format) you can do all
>> the fancy stuff (arrows, labeling etc.) that you need.
>>
>>
>> --
>> GruÃ/Regards
>>   Thomas Schraitle
>>
>>
>>
>>
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