Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: figure comment

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:09:42AM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:04:30AM -1000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > | I want to use an additional text in figures (besides the title). It
> > | shouldn't be listed in the LOF. For example:
> > 
> > You can put a para inside the figure.
> 
> I was unable to do that. Where exactly should I put para? After the
> title? Or after the mediaobject? I'm using DocBook 4.1 SGML DTD.
> 
> I didn't trust my ability to track figure.mix in dbpool.mod, and checked
> against TDG 1.0.3 and psgml 1.2.4 -- it doesn't seem that I can put para
> into figure directly.
> 
> Could you please enlighten me?

You are correct, <para> is not permitted as a child of
<figure>.  I don't see anything that would substitute,
either.  <textobject> can take a para, but that wouldn't
do what you want, probably.
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