Hey Guys,
I’m about to start reading this book that I’m very much looking forward to and
then submitting, but I have a question.
There are a few dozen figures in it that have numbered captions. The problem is
that they break up the text, usually in the middle of a sentence. Now if the
broken text is on the same page, I would merely move the text to one side of
the figure or the other to form a complete sentence. However, with most of
these figures, the text is broken up across pages. The figure is either at the
top or bottom of a page, and the text usually picks up again in the middle of a
sentence. So you either have text interrupted in the middle of a sentence, then
an image caption, then the text picks up on the next page in the middle of a
sentence; or, you have the text ending in the middle of a sentence, then an
image caption at the top of the next page, then the sentence picks up again.
I’m wondering if I should leave this as it is, or move text from one page to
another to form a complete sentence, then the image caption.
The same thing happens with footnotes at the bottoms of pages, and I forget
what we decided about that, but I presume whatever the decision was about those
would apply to image captions as well.
For sighted readers this is not an issue, but for voice and braille readers, it
is inconvenient, if not downright irritating to have text interrupted like
that, but of course, I will follow whatever the policy is.
Thanks much.
Evan
