Re: Captions on subfigures

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:27 PM 3/2/01 -0800, David Arnold wrote:
>Hans et al,
>
>Consider:
>
>\placefigure
>[here][fig1]
>{}
>\startcombination
>{\externalfigure[fig.1]}{a) Short caption}
>{\externalfigure[fig.1]}{a) Things don't look so good with longer captions}
>\stopcombination
>
>This construct gives me side-by-side figures, which I presized to have
>width 2in. Short captions get centered and look OK, but longer captions are
>also centered and don't look so good.
>
>What kind of options do we have for alignment of these captions?

\starttext

\startbuffer
\startcombination
  {\externalfigure[fig.1]} {\sym{a} Short caption}
  {\externalfigure[fig.1]} {\setupalign[normal]\sym{b} Things don't
                            look so good with longer captions\par}
\stopcombination
\stopbuffer

\placefigure[here][fig1]{}{\getbuffer}

\stoptext

I guess that we need something that automatically decides this. Will be
done later, when i isolate the figure stuff in a module.

Hans
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