RE: Figure key
Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah... The figure box in the float is too small for that How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it. -and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. Then you should try Insert-Short Title in the caption of the float. Only the text within this opt inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you can have a brief description in the figure index (list). I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float. So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text. Thanks Manolo Vincent
Re: Figure key
Manolo Martínez schrieb: Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah... The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float. That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in the main text of the document. regards Uwe
RE: Figure key
Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah... The figure box in the float is too small for that How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it. -and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. Then you should try Insert-Short Title in the caption of the float. Only the text within this opt inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you can have a brief description in the figure index (list). I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float. So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text. Thanks Manolo Vincent
Re: Figure key
Manolo Martínez schrieb: Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah... The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float. That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in the main text of the document. regards Uwe
RE: Figure key
>Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place >to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things >such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square >stands for blah"... > >The "figure" box in the float is too small for that How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it. >-and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. Then you should try "Insert->Short Title" in the caption of the float. Only the text within this "opt" inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you can have a brief description in the figure index (list). >I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that >it is just beside the float. So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text. >Thanks >Manolo Vincent
Re: Figure key
Manolo Martínez schrieb: Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float. That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in the main text of the document. regards Uwe
