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RE: Hyperlinks to Figure Captions... what do other people do?
Subject:RE: Hyperlinks to Figure Captions... what do other people do? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:"Stansbury, Stan" <SBS -at- dolby -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:08:11 -0600
Stansbury, Stan wrote:
> I am writing really to see if most people choose door #3, and
> also if there are solutions out there that do not involve me
> or someone very like me hand-inserting hypertext tags for
> thousands of illustrations in more than a hundred manuals.
No. I chose door #2 because:
-- It doesn't look odd to me (or at least, it doesn't any more).
-- The "how we do things" way (captions below figures) is a relic of the
print-only days that just doesn't make sense in the world of HTML, PDF,
and hyperlinks.
-- I don't have thousands of illustrations in more than a hundred
manuals, but if I did, I'd sure have more important things to do than
hand-insert hypertext tags for them.
YMMV. ;-)
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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