- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:13:17 -0500
Michel Fortin wrote: > > To me, a figure contains illustrative content attached to a document. It > may be an image, a code sample, or a snippet of another document used as > an example. I think it's important we do not try to narrow too much what > can and what cannot be contained in a figure; that's the job of the > author do decide. > > For instance, lets say an author wants to put a paragraph in a figure. > It could be to show how the font is rendered, in which case he may > prefer to use a pixel or vector image because what is important is the > shape of the characters; it may be to show a particular writing style, > in which case it's much better to provide the paragraph as text directly > as the text itself is the illustration. In any case, the author knows > what he wants to illustrate, and we should allow him to use the best > medium for that task. Some examples of this kind of usage, albeit without the captions: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/writing/markup#notes ~fantasai
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