Re: Bug 8404 -- taking it to the lists

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Leif Halvard Silli
<xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:
> The spec clearly says that <figure> is not meant for *all* annotated
> "illustrations, diagrams, photos, code listings" either. But only for
> those that hypothetically could have been removed from the document
> without affecting "the flow of the document". If the text says "See
> this figure: [figure]", then that is not hypothetically possible,
> unless you also add a second hypothesis: "... if the text had
> hypothetically been rewritten" ...

No, it says that <figure "can thus be used" for such things.  It is
not saying "can only be used" or similar.  It's presenting a usage
example to ground the previous definition in reality and make it easy
to understand.

> Btw, not many e-mail message ago, you used "could be moved away" as
> proof that you had found examples that constituted a figure: [1]
>
> ]]
> In all of these cases the figures match
> exactly with what the spec says - they are part of the document, but
> could be moved away, perhaps into an appendix, without affecting the
> meaning or flow of the document.
> [[

Indeed.  I don't believe I've contradicted myself; at no point did I
indicate that this was the *only* criterion for <figure>.  As I said
in my previous message, it's a *common* attribute shared by
<figure>-appropriate content, not a require one.

~TJ

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