[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jul 28 10:12:19 CDT 2005
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> I think the syntax might want to be
>
> Attach:image.jpg|This is my caption|
>
> (Notice the extra |)
Captions aren't available for inlined images -- in other words,
one cannot write:
Here is a photo Attach:image.gif|My Caption| in the middle of text.
One can only attach a caption to images that appear at the
beginning of a line. This means that the caption can be everything
from the | to the end of the markup line:
%rframe% Attach:image.gif | My Caption
Note that I'm not talking about alternate text, which remains in
double-quotes as before:
Here is a photo Attach:image.gif"alt text" in the middle of text.
%rframe% Attach:image.gif"alt text" | My Caption
In answer to a previous question about "should the alt text and
caption be the same...?", I'm thinking the answer should be "no".
Wikipedia does use the same text for both alt-text and captions,
but they also add "Unfortunately, it's is not possible to specify
different text for these two purposes." [1] We don't need to share that
particular misfortune. :-)
Pm
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax
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