Re: Captions [was Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.]

[Andrew Pitonyak <an...@pitonyak.org>]

I define my own variables for counting things such as figures. When you insert a caption, this creates a frame that contains both the figure and the caption. Especially if you have floating figures, this seems like a good idea. First, there are a few times when things go poorly if you let things float around; for example, importing into other things or exporting as HTML (to name two). Worse, many years ago, there was a bug that caused OOo to completely fail to load a document with exactly this configuration if another set of things lined up perfectly. I had a very large document that just would not load becaues of it. I ended up editing the XML version of the document until I found the spot that caused the problem. The bug was fixed, of course, but I have not used that method since then. Well, not for most of my documents.

I always embed my images as a character and let them flow with the text. By always, I really mean almost always. This allows me to do things such as have three images on a single line with a single caption. Sure, I can do it the other way, but, the I need to embed the other two images into the frame (and similar). 

I have my own paragraph style for things such as figures, tables, and code listings. Last I checked this is exactly how the documentation project does it. I did it because that is how the documentation for OOo was done. 



On Tuesday, September 03, 2019 13:50 EDT, "W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof." <ro...@mcgill.ca> wrote:
 On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:

> ... ... It sounds like you might want to add something like "keep
> with next paragraph", or something, but, I usually only use that for
> things such as captions where I really need to keep the caption with
> a figure, table, or code listing. 

Andrew, I'm curious about why you don't use the Insert > Caption
feature for figures and tables.

- Robert