table and figure captions

[Fred Ridder]

Deirdre Reagan asked:
 
> Does anyone know why FM automatically makes Table captions but not
> Figure captions?
 
Tables are well-defined encapsulated objects, and one of the properties
that is defined is an optional Title object. If you define a table format
to include a Title object, every table that you assign that format to
will have a title frame to contain your title string. But you can also 
define a table format that does not have a Title.
 
Figures, on the other hand, are not uniquely defined objects. There are 
at least three different methods that are commonly used to insert a 
figure (an anchored frame in the text flow, an unanchored frame in a
fixed location on a page, or in an anchored frame in a table cell), so 
there is no single place where a caption property could be defined to 
apply in all cases. 
 
But a potentially workable solution is to always encapsulate figures in
a single-cell table, since tables *do* have a defined Title object. This
does limit flexibility somewhat regarding horizontal positioning (tables
have their own logic of how and when to span columns and sidehead
areas), but also has a few small additional benefits, like making it 
very easy to globally or individually add/remove border rulings around
figures, and providing facilities for encapsulating notes with the figure.
 
-FR
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