[tei-council] Re: figurin' about <figure>

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jul 25 11:45:42 EDT 2007


Syd Bauman wrote:
> I just opened Knuth _The Art of Computer Programming_ volume 3
> _Sorting and Searching_, and thumbed through a bit, stopping at a
> figure that intrigued me because it looked a bit like a typical tree
> representation of XML. Associated with the image in bold typeface is
> "Fig. 24.", and then, in roman typeface, "RANK fields, used for
> searching by position".
>
> I think most of us would be inclined to encode
>    <head>Fig. 24.</head>
>    <p>RANK fields, used for searching by position</p>
> in P4. I think very few encoders would want to call them both
> <head>s. I do think some folks would think of "Fig. 24." as a label,
> not a heading, though.
>   
Gosh. I'd encode that as <caption>RANK fields, used for
searching by position</caption>
without a shadow of doubt (with a rend or @n if you want).
It is, semantically, the figure caption; it would be
replicated in a list of figures.



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