WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Daniel Pörsch]

Hi list,

a feature which I miss in org-mode is the possibility to add captions
to a table or a image. I use org-mode to prepare technical documents,
currently mostly to export to HTML. It would be very nice to have
usual technical writing style here as well. It would also be very
helpful for LaTeX where you hardly have any image or table w/o caption
(at least I didn't have it).

Proposal would be to introduce an optional special comment to give a
caption, e.g.:
| ...
|---------+-------------+-------+-------|
#+TBLCAP: This table expresses my wish to have a caption.

[[file:org-mode.png]]
#+IMGCAP: Org-mode logo.

Deplate for example has something similar for tables, see
http://deplate.sourceforge.net/Markup.html#tables.

Did you consider this already?

Cheers,
Daniel

--
Daniel Pörsch
danielpoe@gmx.de

Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Bernt Hansen]

"Daniel Pörsch" <danielpoe@gmail.com> writes:

> Proposal would be to introduce an optional special comment to give a
> caption, e.g.:
> | ...
> |---------+-------------+-------+-------|
> #+TBLCAP: This table expresses my wish to have a caption.
>
> [[file:org-mode.png]]
> #+IMGCAP: Org-mode logo.

Would it be possible just to have a generic

#+CAPTION: Description goes here

instead that applies to anything that can have a caption?  This way you
don't need to remember exactly which caption tag you need to use for
each of the things with a caption.

Just my 2 cents.

-Bernt

Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Daniel Pörsch]

Hi Bernt

2008/11/21 Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>:
> "Daniel Pörsch" <danielpoe@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Proposal would be to introduce an optional special comment to give a
>> caption, e.g.:
>> | ...
>> |---------+-------------+-------+-------|
>> #+TBLCAP: This table expresses my wish to have a caption.
>>
>> [[file:org-mode.png]]
>> #+IMGCAP: Org-mode logo.
>
> Would it be possible just to have a generic
>
> #+CAPTION: Description goes here

This is also ok for me. Actually I don't care, whatever is easier to
implement (and I thought if you have to care about the fact if this
special comment is valid at this position, it may be easier to have
destinct names).

Cheers,
Daniel

-- 
Daniel Pörsch
danielpoe@gmx.de

Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Daniel Pörsch wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> a feature which I miss in org-mode is the possibility to add captions
> to a table or a image. I use org-mode to prepare technical documents,
> currently mostly to export to HTML. It would be very nice to have
> usual technical writing style here as well. It would also be very
> helpful for LaTeX where you hardly have any image or table w/o caption
> (at least I didn't have it).

HTML does not really have a natural way to add a caption to an image
or a table (as far as I know, that is).  What structural element
would you propose?

I do like the idea to add captions, but I will probably only get
around to that when after fixing a few bugs in the LaTeX exporter,
for which captions are even more interesting.

- Carsten

>
>
> Proposal would be to introduce an optional special comment to give a
> caption, e.g.:
> | ...
> |---------+-------------+-------+-------|
> #+TBLCAP: This table expresses my wish to have a caption.
>
> [[file:org-mode.png]]
> #+IMGCAP: Org-mode logo.
>
> Deplate for example has something similar for tables, see
> http://deplate.sourceforge.net/Markup.html#tables.
>
> Did you consider this already?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> --
> Daniel Pörsch
> danielpoe@gmx.de
>
>
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Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Bernt Hansen]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> HTML does not really have a natural way to add a caption to an image
> or a table (as far as I know, that is).  What structural element
> would you propose?

Tables are easy.

<table> blah
<caption> the caption goes here </caption>
<tr> 
...
</tr>
</table>

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.2

For images you can do it with CSS

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/figures

-Bernt

Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images

[Daniel Pörsch]

Hi,

2008/12/4 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>:
>
> I do like the idea to add captions, but I will probably only get
> around to that when after fixing a few bugs in the LaTeX exporter,
> for which captions are even more interesting.

WOW, just saw that CAPTION support has been added recently! Will try
it out soon!

Great thanks!

-- 
Daniel Pörsch
danielpoe@gmx.de