Re: <math>, <fig>, ... (fwd)
Scott E. Preece (preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com)
Fri, 10 May 1996 09:17:48 -0500
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:17:48 -0500
From: preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
Message-Id: <199605101417.JAA25564@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
To: connolly@beach.w3.org
Cc: megazone@livingston.com, www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: "Daniel W. Connolly"'s message of Fri, 10 May 1996 09:54:06 -0400
Subject: Re: <math>, <fig>, ... (fwd)
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
| But <object> doesn't address the need to represent figures
| with descriptive markup. In recent proposals for FIG that I've
| seen, a figure wouldn't even necessarily involve a graphic.
| For example:
|
| <fig>
| <caption>RSA in three lines of Perl</caption>
| <pre>
| lksjerlij34liwj34lij
| </pre>
| </fig>
---
In a recent note I suggested adding CAPTION and CREDIT as sub-elements
of DIV. I recant. They should be sub-elements of things that are of
defined types (and, therefore, useful for building things like lists of
figures and lists of tables). So CAPTION and CREDIT should be
sub-elements of TABLE and FIG and, maybe, OBJECT.
Maybe, if you're going to define FIG as just a wrapper for marking
something as a figure, you should change its name to FIGURE, to avoid
confusion with the previous use of FIG as an inclusion mechanism.
scott
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