atw: Re: Caption placement

My style guides are in another office. However, there is a simple
functional reason for this difference.

Table captions are generally only table titles, and naturally the title
should lead the content. Explanatory material is generally managed as
footnotes to the table. Figure captions often (generally?) involve much
more than a simple title (which may still be incorporated in the top of
the graphic). The caption includes explanations for labelled elements
and perhaps of the overall figure, which cannot reasonably be put in
advance of the figure which has not yet been seen if one is reading in a
linear fashion.

Regards,

Bill

William P. (Bill) Hall, PhD
Documentation & KM Systems Analyst
Head Office/Engineering
Tenix Defence
Williamstown, Vic. 3016 Australia
Email: bill.hall@xxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.tenix.com

National Fellow
Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society
History and Philosophy of Science
University of Melbourne
Email: bhall-u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au/

Visiting Faculty Associate
University of Technology Sydney 

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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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