On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Georg> Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 19:57 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > >> The attached patch seems the most easiest way to implement this. > >> Comments? > > Georg> This patch finally convinced me that the move to insets was > Georg> wrong. I am sorry that I caused others to work on this, but at > Georg> that time I was not aware that we would need so many hacks. > > Georg> The reason for using an inset for captions was to get rid of > Georg> some hacks in the code. Now we have an equal amount of new > Georg> hacks, some regressions in bugzilla and still lack some of the > Georg> functionality of the old caption layout which is very difficult > Georg> to implement with insets in a clean way: Customization of the > Georg> look on screen. > > This is something I am not going to disagree with... I have yet to see > one real advantage of the caption inset, besides the fact (good or > bad, I do not know) that there is a nice border around the paragraph.
One advantage is that you get numbered figures on screen. -- Enrico
