Sorry for any delays, I had two hard drives fail on the same day and it
took a while for me to get back up...
What is a caption? A caption is a paragraph containing a specific "field".
If you look at a caption, you will usually see something like this:
Figure <Figure + 1>: This is a pretty picture.
What are these things?
1. "Figure " is regular text.
2. I used "<Figure + 1>" to represent a field containing the formula
"Figure + 1", which means that it obtains the current value of Figure,
adds 1 to it, and displays that at the current location. As captions are
removed and inserted, all other captions retain the correct value.
3. ": This is a pretty picture." is just text for the caption.
Assume that this is the 5th caption so that it appears as "Figure 5:
This is a pretty picture." If you reference figure 5 in context, all
text preceding the field to the start of the paragraph is included. In
other words, you are expected to use short text values preceding the
field in a single paragraph for a caption. When is this a problem?
I created captions for equations. On a whim, I opted to number equations
in different ways
EQ 5 x = y + 1
z = 2+x EQ 6
Can you see why this did not work? The only problem was that I wanted to
insert a reference, and the reference to (6) with the context stuff
wanted to insert everything before the 6. I know, so do not reference
that way....
If OOo creates the caption, it places the figure in a frame with the
"caption paragraph".
On 11/09/2009 11:45 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
document, if you like.
You can separate them by cut/paste and distribute them over the whole
But if you cut the caption from a picture (frame) and paste it
elsewhere, does it retain the property of "caption" - or is it just
unassociated text?
As mentioned above, a caption is nothing more than a paragraph with a
specific field in it. There are fields already created for Figure,
Table, Illustration, Drawing, Listing, and Text. Hmm, I might have
created at least one of those myself. Too lazy to check against a new
document. The point, however, is that I can create my own fields for this.
Did you just figure out that really there is nothing special about a
caption and it may not be considered a caption until you choose to cross
reference it?
I believe (but I haven't checked) that you can make your own
fully-functional captions without using the Insert > Caption menu at
all.
Yes, as I understand it, that is essentially Andrew Pitonyak's method
- though it seems to me he does that primarily to compensate for
Writer's weakness in handling graphics.
Correct, that is how I do it.
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