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

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "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

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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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