At 20:18 08/10/2002, David Cramer wrote:
>XEP 2.7x, but these aren't floats. It's a block thing inside of a para, specifically 
>when there's mixed content before the block thing. 
>
>    <para>
>      The following image shows just what I mean.
>        <informalfigure float="0">
>          <mediaobject>
>            <imageobject><imagedata fileref="../image.gif"/>
>            </imageobject>
>          </mediaobject>
>        </informalfigure>
>        Here's some more text about the image.
>    </para>
>
>When the renderer has a choice of putting the image with the text that comes before 
>the image (but is in the same para)or with text that comes after, it should go with 
>the text that comes before.

Yep, sounds reasonable.

> If you have a figure, list, procedure, or whatever inside of a para, you're 
>indicating that the text in that para is closely related to the figure, list, or 
>procedure. 

Err no. That might be your or even my version.
I've slowly learned that its rarely a universal.
(mho)




>Unfortunately, it's difficult to put together good test cases that show the behavior, 
>but in a document we're working with that has lots of screenshots we had lots of 
>pages where the image was pushed to the next page, while the text that introduced it 
>was on the previous page, sometimes with lots of blank space. 

Mmm/ Messy.

A standard markup, then customisation, sounds about right for that.
Then I'd recommend a 'keep-with-next' with high priority.

Regards DaveP


>Not sure if I'm expressing myself well, but it's intuitive when you see it :)

I was surprised to see you drawing it 'side by side' which
is float end style, hence my comment.

REgards DaveP


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