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

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed Jul 25 12:18:40 EDT 2007


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Syd Bauman wrote:
>>
>> Do you mean the one at
>> http://listserv.brown.edu/?A2=ind0606&L=TEI-L&P=R7213?
>> That looks like you were interested in dealing with a whole image and
>> some fragments thereof. Lou, does that match what you're talking
>> about?
>>   
> the markup matches what *I* think nested figures are for,
> but your words don't. The use is to describe a figure
> which contains (eg) two graphs captioned "(a) Before Harry
> Potter" and "(b) After Harry Potter", and an overall
> caption saying "Instances of black magic games amongst pre-teens".
> 
> that model is very common indeed in scientific journals etc.
> 

Exactly. That's what I had in mind, and we should put an example into 
the Guidelines along those lines (though preferably a real one, 
unrelated to any Potterish nonsense)





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