[Framers] Captions

[Rick Quatro]

Fantastic! Thanks for the feedback.

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Captions

Thanks for that tip, Rick.  It works brilliantly, and it's so simple I'm
surprised I didn't think of it.

Doug

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:13 PM Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

> 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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