On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:05:16AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
[...]
> > However, I share the concerns of others and think that you are
> > starting from bottom, rather than from top. I mean that the old
> > functionality should be restored first, and then we can build on
> > that.
>
> As I said, I don't think I have the required knowledge to do things this
> way. I am offering to at least enable contcaption support if someone
> gives me a hand with this; if not, then I don't have the time to acquire
> the necessary knowledge and things will stay the same for 1.6. If
> someone think about the format change (if any) and implement it now,
> maybe we can do this in 1.6.x time.
Abdel, I really don't understand if you understood what the problem is.
You don't have to enable contcaption support, specifically, but the
possibility to customize the onscreen caption appearance. No LaTeX
knowledge is required for this.
The easiest thing to do would be reverting caption to be an environment,
but it seems that it would be more effective asking for the moon. So,
let us suppose that it will remain an inset. Then, I would like to be
able to put in a layout file the following lines (as an example):
# Caption style re-definition
InsetLayout Caption:Standard
NextNoIndent 1
Align Center
AlignPossible Block, Center
Font
Size small
EndFont
LabelFont
Series Medium
Shape Italic
EndFont
End
in order to be able to customize its onscreen appearance.
Then, as I am a bad boy, I would like to be able to also put the
following in a layout file:
# Continued Caption definition
InsetLayout Caption:ContCaption
CopyInsetStyle Caption:Standard
LatexName contcaption
Preamble
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{font=footnotesize,labelfont=it}
\newcommand{\contcaption}[1]{\ContinuedFloat\caption{#1}}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{continued}{#1~#2 (continued)}
\captionsetup[ContinuedFloat]{labelformat=continued}
EndPreamble
End
and would expect the following result:
1) Insert a caption
2) The caption inset appears and it uses the layout as specified in
Caption:Standard above.
3) Hit right mouse button for a context menu.
4) The menu appears with two choices: "Standard" and "ContCaption".
5) Choose "ContCaption".
6) The inset layout is modified as specified in Caption:ContCaption
above and the software makes sure that the LaTeX name "contcaption"
is used instead of "caption". The layout file provides the necessary
LaTeX code, you don't have to do anything in this respect.
Then, I could also put the following in a layout file:
# CaptionAbove definition
InsetLayout Caption:CaptionAbove
CopyInsetStyle Caption:Standard
LatexName captionabove
End
Such that in step 4) above the choices would now be: "Standard",
"ContCaption", and "CaptionAbove". Got it? You don't have to
hardcode anything, the caption inset should simply be customizable
through layout files.
--
Enrico
