Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Jakob ja...@gmx.at wrote:  recently though about image captions, then i realized that this could be achiebed by Markdown Extra's definition list feature: ![alttext](http://exampl.com/img.jpg) : here goes the *caption* What do you think? Hmm, what HTML are

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Jakob
Von: Waylan Limberg way...@gmail.com Hmm, what HTML are you suggesting that output? Standard Definition List HTML? How would that translate to a caption? In the meantime I rethought my proposal, but for the sake of being backwards compatible with HTML4: I think it should take a figure class

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Humiston
It's a good idea, Jakob. Despite the name of this HTML element (which HTML5 moves to rename as description list), it exists for exactly the sort of purpose you suggest -- or, as I like to say, DT is some object, DD is something *about* that object. No matter which implementation of Markdown

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Jakob ja...@gmx.at wrote: Von: Waylan Limberg way...@gmail.com Hmm, what HTML are you suggesting that output? Standard Definition List HTML? How would that translate to a caption? In the meantime I rethought my proposal, but for the sake of being backwards

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Humiston t...@jumpingrock.net wrote: It's a good idea, Jakob. Despite the name of this HTML element (which HTML5 moves to rename as description list), it exists for exactly the sort of purpose you suggest -- or, as I like to say, DT is some object, DD

Re: Definition list as image caption

2012-06-22 Thread Lou Quillio
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Jakob ja...@gmx.at wrote:  recently though about image captions, then i realized that this could be achiebed by Markdown Extra's definition list feature: ![alttext](http://exampl.com/img.jpg) : here goes the *caption* What do you think? For reference,