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From: Richard Cleaveland <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: TMG 6.01: So what do you do with your exhibits?
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:13:24 -0400
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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).

I had a hunch when I wrote it that it might be misunderstood. What I
meant was to use the caption feature of the word processor(s) which
makes the caption a part of the "box" the graphic is in, so moving the
"box" moves the caption with the graphic.

In Word perfect or Word, right-click on the image and scroll down the
menu to "caption." That's what I meant. Looking at the RTF it doesn't
seem like it would take a lot of work - but of course that kind of
judgement is often proven wrong in practice.

<snip>
> 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...

Me too, and I've suggested it several times in the past, giving details
about what I'd like (knowing that some of these would be a bit of
trouble for the developers).

> 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).

Sounds like a good idea; I've been waiting for the caption problem to be
resolved before going into preparation of printed material other than
for tests, so I haven't been looking at this aspect so far.

Dick

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