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Re: Re: <informaltable> with <title>
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr at ata dot cs dot hun dot edu dot tr>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:54:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: <informaltable> with <title>
- References: <20011221173131.GA1868@alatau.ankara.gantek.com><87k7v0tlgb.fsf@nwalsh.com> <20020105204955.GC4321@alatau.ankara.gantek.com>
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:49:55PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:52:20PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > / Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@gantek.com> was heard to say:
> > | <!ELEMENT InformalTable - - ((%formalobject.title.content;)?,
> > | (Graphic+|MediaObject+|tgroup+)) %tbl.table.excep;>
> > Yuck. I suggest that a role attribute on <table> to suppress the
> > leading "Table N." would be better.
>
> > Why do you want this distinction? (I'm not challenging your need, I
> > just want to understand it.)
>
> Well... I have informal tables with titles :).
Yes, we had some of those in our troff system,
and we called them "semiformal" tables. Really.
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