At 11:59 15/08/2009 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
Ah! Thanks! Then
"Illustration Number range Illustration: "
becomes, on instantiation,
"Illustration <Illustration number>: "
That's easy enough to understand. But what becomes of " range Illustration"?
As I mentioned before, the whole of "Number range Illustration" is
the name of the field.
I still don't see how to do that - how to select the text to edit.
Providing you don't have the picture selected (or even have the
picture selected but not its caption), there's no problem, I
think. Click somewhere else so that you see no green handles. Then
go to the caption text.
Setting aside the utter lack of intuitiveness in selecting the
illustration without the caption in order to edit the caption...
No: I made no such suggestion. I merely pointed out that if you had
somehow achieved this (which I didn't recommend!), you could still
edit the caption, in fact. It's only whilst you have the frame
containing the picture and caption together selected that you cannot
get at the caption to edit it. In any other circumstance, you can.
... how, precisely, does one select the illustration without the caption?
Don't try: just ensure that the whole thing is *not* selected and you
should find no problem.
That's because that menu item is - oddly - creating a second
caption for the same illustration, so no: you cannot edit the
original caption here.
[...] Does the characterization "oddly" suggest that you also find it a bug?
No: I was just recognising that it may be counterintuitive. You said
originally that the help text suggested editing the caption text
directly in the document - as indeed it does. Since you can do this,
there is presumably no need to return to the Caption dialogue for an
existing caption.
Brian Barker
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