Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: <informaltable> with <title>

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:49:55PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:52:20PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > / Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com> was heard to say:
> > | <!ELEMENT InformalTable - - ((%formalobject.title.content;)?,
> > |                              (Graphic+|MediaObject+|tgroup+)) %tbl.table.excep;>
> > Yuck. I suggest that a role attribute on <table> to suppress the
> > leading "Table N." would be better.
> 
> > Why do you want this distinction? (I'm not challenging your need, I
> > just want to understand it.)
> 
> Well... I have informal tables with titles :).

Yes, we had some of those in our troff system,
and we called them "semiformal" tables.  Really.


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