atw: Re: Caption placement

I agree with Hedley if you have control of your publications. Most of my
publishing is in professional and scientific journals where the caption
always follows the figure. Even in this environment, where it is
appropriate, I include a title as part of the graphic. 

Regards,

Bill

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Bill:

From my time in book publishing, I think figure titles went below
because 
that's the position they /always/ had, right back to Caxton's
grandmother.

My preference is to put figure titles above (or before) because that's 
where the heading or title announcing every other element of a
publication 
is placed (excepting /Wired/ and /Parade Song Hits/ magazines).  The
other 
items of text surrounding a figure are the /legend/, that is, the key to

any symbols or abbreviations on the diagram, and the /caption/,
consisting 
of the prose paragraphs that describe or augment the diagram with other 
information not readily rendered graphically.

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