[Framers] Captions

[Rick Quatro]

I am not sure how your document is set up, but I have done something like
this:

paragraph format: "anchor" with autonumber F:<n+> and color White. This is
the paragraph that has the anchored frame.
paragraph format: "caption" with autonumber F:Figure <n>.

All of my cross-references point to the anchor paragraph.

Rick Quatro
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-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On
Behalf Of Doug
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Captions

My shop's standard is to (sigh) put the captions below the objects.  My
workaround for this is to put a xref link above the object.  This works
well, except the object name/number in the xref link doesn't update
automatically if the caption changes.  (This is the reason for one of my
feature requests I've submitted.)

I was hoping I'd overlooked an easy solution to ensure my caption
names/numbers in the xref links would stay updated automagically.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:07 AM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frame goes to where you put the cross-reference marker, so yes, if you 
> want the graphic to be visible when you jump to it, you have to put 
> the marker above the graphic. Frame only has one type of 
> cross-reference marker; there is no way for the program to distinguish 
> between "this place in the text", "this caption above a graphic", or "this
caption below a graphic".
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:19 AM Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there an industry standard or best practice to follow when 
> > deciding where to place the caption for an image, table, or 
> > equation?  The obvious choices are either above the object or below it.
> >
> > Also, if you place your captions below, how do you deal with making 
> > cross-references to the caption?  In my experience the caption 
> > displays
> at
> > the top of the screen after the link jump. which puts the object out 
> > of sight above the top of the screen in this case.
> >
> > It almost seems as if FrameMaker expects users to put captions above 
> > the object.
> >
> > Doug
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