atw: Re: Caption placement

I use the following reason for putting all captions above the item
(tables and figures), when Word is the tool:

*
        If you have tables which span multiple pages, you need to
identify the table on every page (particularly if the document consists
of many similar tables). The only way to do this (that I am aware of -
or at least, this is what I do) is to create a row at the top of the
table (no borders), and place the caption in there. Then use the
"Heading Rows Repeat" function, and voila! - the table is identified on
every page on which it appears, rather than at the bottom of the last
row, which could be any number of pages away from where it started.

*
        Because table captions are at the top of the table, for
consistency, all other captions need to go above whatever they are
captioning.

So if your tool is Word, that could be where the above-table captioning
started (even if they no longer use in a row), and perhaps the thought
process didn't flow through to other types of caption.

However, other tools, such as FrameMaker, don't have this restriction,
and I can't think of any reason why you would want to mix up the caption
position.



Regards

Elizabeth Fullerton
Business Solutions Architect
Infosys Australia
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        From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debbie Hope
        Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 1:14 PM
        To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: atw: Caption placement


        Hi
        
        The 'house' style of my current workplace dictates captions in
documents are placed above a table and below a figure / graphic. I have
come across this in a couple of other organisations I have worked for.
        
        Does anybody know the history and/or reasoning behind this? I
cannot seem to find any references for caption placement in the
Commonwealth Style Manual.
        
        As always, thanks in advance Austechies!!
        
        Cheers
        Debbie



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