RE: Formatting captions with figure/table number

[Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, put the tab after 'Table' and before the number: solves all problems. This 
seems to work better with a space after the tab for some reason:

 	Table\t <$chapnum>-<n+>\t

(NB R-aligned tab must align on '-' not '.'.)

However, personally I use an en space before the number and an em space after 
it:

 	Table\sn<$chapnum>-<n+>\sm

EJP


On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:25 PM, Lester C. Smalley 
[SMTP:lsmalley@infocon.com] wrote:
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> Paul,
>
> Would it be acceptable to have a fixed amount of space between the
> number and the caption text, but a varying left margin?
>
> For example:
>
>      Table 4-3  Table Title
>    Table 10-13  Table Title
>
> If so, add a right aligned tab stop to the paragraph tag, and also a
> leading tab character to the autonumber string (\t is the tab):
>
> 	\tTable <$chapnum>-<n+>\t
>
> If not, then you are limited to either accepting the varying amount of
> white space or changing to a set number of spaces between the components
> of the title.  Note:
>
> Paul Kent wrote:
>
> > My figure and table captions include a tab between the figure number and
> > the
> > title of the figure or table. For example:
> >
> > Table 4-3       Table Title
> > Table 10-13     Table Title
> >
> > I think the text above probably illustrates my concern.  Note that the
> > space
> > twixt the number and title.  If the chapter number and figure number are
> > both single digit, the space is huge, when they're both double digit, the
> > space is sorta tight.  As I type this it occurs to me that maybe I should
> > just discard the tab and use a double space instead.  Is this what everyone
> > else is doing?  I'm curious.
> >
> > Thanks
> > PK
> > J. Paul Kent
> > TriPath Imaging Inc
> > pkent@tripathimaging.com
> > 425-556-5031
>
> -- Lester
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