RE: DOCBOOK: sect1 in preface

["Gershon Leib Joseph" <gershon at mainsoft dot com>]

Godoy,

It is most unusual to xref an "informal" object. Standard publishing
practice is to place any object that has references to it in a "formal"
container. For example, if you need to reference a table, use <table> and
not <informaltable>. If you want to reference a graphic or other multimedia
object, place it in a <figure> rather than placing the <graphic> or whatever
directly inline.

Even if you are referencing lots of objects, I still recommend putting them
in formal containers for two reasons:

1. You can reference them ;-)

2. If you need to reference them, they should be important enough to warrant
a caption or title.

Gershon.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
[mailto:owner-docbook@lists.oasis-open.org]On Behalf Of Jorge Godoy
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:17 PM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: sect1 in preface

On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:50:32AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Camille Begnis <camille@mandrakesoft.com> was heard to say:
> | Various probs indeed:
> | 1) xref does not seem to recognize referencies to mediaobject, nor
> | imageobject, nor imagedata. nsgmls is OK, but jade complains that the
> | system does not recognize this.
> | 	- How can I achieve that?
> | 	- If so, are figures automatically assigned a number?
>
> Put the object inside a formal wrapper (figure, for example) and
> xref to that. Xref has to generate text, so you have (basically)
> to point to something with a title.

And can't a <informalfigure> be used instead of <figure>? I don't want
to supply a title for every figure I use an <xref> to.

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