- From: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@clark.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org, www-style@www10.w3.org
Michael Johnson once wrote... > > I can think of one good reason why a FIG implies a paragraph break, which > has to do with HTML semantics, and that is this: > > <FIG> can contain tags which implicitly end any current paragraph. Therefore, Thanks Michael (and Chris T, Chris L, Andrew M, etc.) for explaining this. > 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 top margin. > This would give something like: > > In 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered an address on the > battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He began > this address with the +-----------------------+ > now-famous phrase "Four | | > score and seven years | | > ago, our forefathers | | > brought forth on this | | > continent a new nation" | | > +-----------------------+ > > This would require the browser to remember where it was formatting text before > it encountered the figure in order to join the lines properly, but that > shouldn't be hard. This is exactly the sort of effect I am looking for. Now that I understand why a <fig> breaks a paragraph, I'd support a style sheet mechanism for lining a <fig> up with the paragraphs around it. -- %%%%%% mikebat@clark.net %%%%%% http://www.clark.net/pub/mikebat/www/ %%%%%%
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