Re: [xml2rfc-dev] [Ext] RFC 7991 issue #31: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, In Section 2.54, <table>

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

On 2018-10-20 03:33, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Sorry to reopen, but I'm not clear on the result. We have consensus on something, but I'm not clear how to implement it.
> 
> 
> On Oct 9, 2018, at 11:26 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-10-09 20:22, Jim Schaad wrote:
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xml2rfc-dev <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Heather
>>>> Flanagan
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 11:01 AM
>>>> To: [e-mail]
>>>> Subject: Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #31: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, In
>>>> Section 2.54, <table>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/6/18 2:53 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-10-06 21:26, Jim Schaad wrote:
>>>>>>>> What is the rule you have for doing the alignment of figure
>>>>>>>> captions? I think that the same rules should apply to both figures
>>>>>>>> and tables.
>>>>>>> Till now, both have been centered.  That can be changed.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> No, I would not change this.  I would keep the centering for the
>>>>>> caption.  The next interesting question the caption is wider than the
>>>>>> table should it be wrapped to the table width or run on past the edge
>>>>>> of the table.  I don't think that I have a preference
>>>>> I don't (at least currently) have a strong preference.  The current
>>>>> code wraps the title to fit within the table width.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not entirely sure how this issue differs from the table alignment
>>> discussed
>>>> in issues 40 and 9?
>>> 
>>> The first was where do you place the table on the page.  This one is how do
>>> you place the caption in the table.
>> 
>> Much more succinct than my reply :-)
> 

> Is the result to simply add text that says "the caption will appear
> centered", or is the result to add a new attribute such as
> "alignCaption" with the default being "center".

The caption will be centred under the table, and the combined table and
caption will be aligned according to the 'align' attribute on <table>.

	Henrik

> 
> If the latter, should this same new attribute be added to <figure> as
> well?
> 
> --Paul
>