- From: Rodney Barnett <RBarnett@us.teltech.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 07:29:01 cst
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
In message <199507131625.MAA07293@beach.w3.org>, Daniel W. Connolly writes: [snip] >During the white-board discussion that Dave and I had, we discussed >this sort of thing, including the way FrameMaker allows you to >align figures all sorts of fancy ways with respect to the paragraph >in which they're anchored. > >We considered the possibility of expressing the above situation as: > > <p>The bond angle between the two oxygen-hydrogen > bonds in water is slightly larger than that > between two carbon-hydrogen bonds in methane > (see <a href="fig1">figure 1</a>)<spot id=fig1anchor>. This > is due to the two extra pairs of free electrons around the > oxygen atom, which take up more space than the bound > pairs.</p> > > <fig src="molecules.jpg" id="fig1" align="right" at="fig1anchor"> > figure 1 shows models of CO2 and H2O molecules > </fig> > >This way, the content models aren't changed: <FIG> is still a >peer of <P>. But the <spot> element allows the author to suggest >where the figure should be anchored in the paragraph. > >Do you think that would work? > >Dan Why restrict this discussion to figures if <FIG> and <P> are peers? Couldn't the mechanism above be generalized a little to allow textual sidebars or embedded lists? In other words, isn't this discussion really about taking two separate elements and expressing a containment relationship between them? Rodney
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