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Subject:Figures - Captions and References? From:Beth Kane <Beth -dot- Kane -at- VENTANA -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:37:58 -0700
I don't use figure numbers, because the graphics are referred to in adjacent
text. And I agree with the "throwback" statement below.
However, I was recently panned by one STC contest judge for not using them.
I'd be interested in hearing from more STC judges about this. Why should we
use them?
I chuckle at the formality of figure numbers when I see them in books. Now
that we have dynamically updated cross-references in tech docs, we can tell
people what page the graphic appears on if we refer to one that's not
adjacent to the current text.
I can see the logic in using captions, perhaps, but not numbers.
Beth Kane in Tucson
kane -at- ventana -dot- com
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"I think they're a throwback to the time when it wasn't always possible to
have the figures in or near the location of the text where it was referred
to."
