IANAL. (Satisfied Scott?)

At 10:29 AM 2/3/2002 -0800, Michael Cortez wrote:
> >> But does an ALT tag, which you have to move the mouse over the
> >> image to discover, clearly identify something? If you're willing
> >> to take the heat of that, that's your business. But I don't see why
> >> you wouldn't want to provide the text with the picture so that the
> >> printed copy will display it as well.
>
>Oh, well, I never said I didn't want to include the caption text.

Oh, well it seemed like you did.

>My problem is, the "publication" that I'm putting together is actually based
>on dozens of XML files (it could be hundreds by summer) that go through a
>number of automated steps to produce a set of end products -- the same
>documents as HTML, PDF and MS-Help (possibly even RTF & plain TXT as well).
>
>The current build chain, does not allow for a Caption text to be provided
>under images under all situations.  Given enough time and effort, I believe
>I can customize the build chain to include captions in all instances -- but
>at this time, I'd rather get the document published then spend an addtional
>X hours tweaking XSLT sheets and then figuring out a way of keeping those
>XSLT sheets synced with new versions that a 3rd party will be putting out.

But each different version is technically a different publication. The 
content of your source XML is not what you are distributing to anyone who 
buys your PDF. I wouldn't release any version that didn't have  the visual 
indicator. It should be text on the screen which you are sure will print 
barring user error.

   Joe


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