Definition list as image caption
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
Sat Jun 23 09:43:34 EDT 2012
Le 2012-06-23 à 8:19, Jakob a écrit :
>>> Beside, before we add captions to images, perhaps we could add captions
>> to
>>> tables. I know MultiMarkdown already has that, but not PHP Markdown
>> Extra.
>>> Once we have that we could find a similar way to add caption to various
>>> other things which would wrap the said thing in a figure element. In
>> short,
>>> it should be pretty much the same syntax for both.
>>
>> I totally agree! But why not use the same syntax?:
>>
>> ! caption of the table
>> | user | password |
>> |-------|----------|
>> | frank | 123456 |
>> | mike | mypass |
>
> I think it should be posisible to use tables with captions inside of a figure element: Therefore we need a different syntax for the table caption.
Not at all. If we want to allow anything inside a figure element (as HTML5 permits), then all we have to do is force the figure content to be indented. You could even nest figures that way.
Idea: use "!" to create a figure:
[[ Figure 1: some image ]]
! 
[[ Figure 2: some text ]]
! paragraph
this is it
blah bla
[[ Figure 3: some code ]]
! ~~~
<html>
~~~
[[ Figure 4: some table ]]
! [ Table 1: passwords for all my friends ]
user | password
---- | --------
mike | mypass
[[ Figure 5: nested figures ]]
! [[ Figure X: another figure ]]
! [[ Figure Y: yet another ]]
! this is getting ridiculous
Now, just make the leading "!" and indentation optional for an image and you get this:
[[ Figure 1: A simple image ]]
And preceding the figure with a caption could be optional:
! some figure with text and without a caption
--
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/
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