Re: Tables and Figures. Why not call them both illustrations?

Subject: Re: Tables and Figures. Why not call them both illustrations?
From: "Brigitte Johnston" <bjohnston -at- humantech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:37:18 -0400


Hi all -

Dick Margulis wrote:

Remember that the layout was not done until _after_ all the art was prepared and the galleys were set. At that point, the makeup person (not being politically correct here; a fair percentage of talented makeup people were women) would start putting pages together. The convention, still observed, is that all figures and tables have to go at the top or bottom of a page (not in the middle), after the first text reference.

I'm curious -- do most of you routinely place figures and tables at the top or bottom of a page (not in the middle)? I'd been taught to place them as near to the text that refers to them as possible, even if that means they end up in the middle of the page!

Brigitte Johnston
Technical Writer/Editor






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