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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: TMG 6.01: So what do you do with your exhibits?
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:56:30 -0700
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On or about 10/1/2005 10:56 AM a carrier pigeon from Richard
Cleaveland delivered:
>And I would like to see all captions embedded with the graphic
>rather than being a separate text line, so that when moving the
>graphic in a word processor the caption would move along with it.

Unlikely to happen -- as that would require TMG (and/or the
report writer module) to be able to edit graphics (of different
formats), figure out what the output scale is going to be, generate
suitable sized text, and save a copy of the image for report purposes
(since I'm sure you don't want every change in the caption to add
/another/ caption to a single image file). Of course, if creating
temporary image files, what format should they be saved in? And where
does one save them -- especially if they are not "embedded" in the
output but linked, and have to be updated from the word-processor side.

I believe some of the better word-processors are able to
link "caption" style tags to the relevant image, so they do move in
parallel... But this would probably require the report-writer module
to be undergo massive updating -- Something I've felt it needs
anyways... I'd much rather have it define style tags for
chapter/generation headings so that changing the style in the
word-processor catches all such AND so the pre/post-leading is part
of the tag... Rather than the usage of empty paragraph markers for
spacing (and one can then define "keep with next" so heading doesn't
get lost at the foot of one page with the paragraph on the next).


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