- From: Justin Greene <jgreene@greene.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:04:15 -0300
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
>>>The FIG tag is a paragraph tag itself. >>>It implys the content is a paragraph on its own. >>>It cannot go into another paragragh like the IMG tag can. >> >>Yes, but *why*. There's no logical reason at all why a figure should >>be a separate paragraph. Wouldn't it be far better to _not_ have >>fig as an implicit paragraph and allow authors to explicitly >>denote a fig (ie.,within <p></p> ) if the semnatics of their document >>demand it. >It seems to me that what Ping is objecting to is not really that <FIG> implies >a paragraph break, but that the browser he is using (Arena) renders this by >inserting vertical white space. His objection is not really based on HTML >semantics, but on stylistic issues. He doesn't want to see the flow of the text >broken up just because a figure is needed, which is a valid concern. > >I expect this can be gotten around largely by using style sheets. For example, >one could have something like this: > > <P class="before.figure"> > In 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered an address on the battlefield at > Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. > <FIG align=right src="gettysburg.jpg">Text of gettysburg address</FIG> > <P class="after.figure"> > He began this address with the now-famous phrase <quot>Four score and > seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new > nation</quot> > >The style for P.before.figure could suppress the trailing line break and the >style for P.after.figure could suppress the leading line break and The trouble with this example is it take a block of text which is clearly one paragraph and makes it two thus changeing the structure of the content. Justin - Justin Greene : jgreene@greene.com : http://www.greene.com Greene COMMUNICATIONS Design, inc., Internet Development Group 216 West 18th St., Floor 12 : New York City : 10011 : 212-242-9308
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