> -----Original Message----- > From: Iremonger, Bernard > Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 10:19 AM > To: Thomas Monjalon; Mcnamara, John > Cc: Butler, Siobhan A; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] split programmers guide a bit > > > > 2015-03-31 11:34, Mcnamara, John: > > > Any objection to an additional patch to move the figure captions > > > below the figures in the docs? > > > > No objection. > > We should use figure:: keyword instead of image:: to add a caption. > > > > > The caption above the figure was the format used in the initial > > > docs, and it looks okay in the HTML output, but in the PDF output it > > > tends to get merged into the preceding paragraph and isn't always on > > > the same page as the figure. > > > > Yes, it's a bit strange. > > Why moving it below will ensure to keep it in the same page? > > I think figure:: keyword may solve it. > > Hi John, > > My preference would be to keep the caption above the figure. > This was the way it was done in the original 1.7 MSword documents (the > starting point for the conversion to rst files).
Hi Bernard, I don't mind the caption above. I'm mainly concerned with it staying with the image. To do this we need to use the figure:: keyword as Thomas suggested. However, there are some knock on effects from this. * As far as I can see, we can't just replace with image:: with figure:: in the |image-name| substitution definitions since Sphinx or RST doesn't support it. * This means that the |image-name| substitutions will have to change back to explicit .. figure:: declarations. Not a big deal. * The captions have to be under the image. I don't see a way to configure it to be on top. It may be possible in LaTex but not in Html. * We should also modify the table captions in the same way. So at this point I'm sorry I brought it up. I can post a programmatically generated patch as an RFC if there is interest in seeing what the updated output would look like. The main positive is that it would give us automatic* figure/table numbering in Html and PDF and the captioning looks quite good. (*This requires Sphinx 1.3). John
