Re: Hyperlinks to Figure Captions... what do other people do?

[Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>]

Stansbury, Stan wrote:
> So here is the situation. Our figure captions are underneath the
> illustrations they refer to, and we generate hyperlinks for them in
> Acrobat and WebWorks using tags automated cross references in the Frame
> Maker source. When you click a hyperlinked figure reference, "See figure
> 4-1", for example, in an HTML page the system therefore displays the
> page with the figure title at the top forcing you to scroll up if you
> want to see the illustration.
> 
> This is proper behavior but it also dumb-looking. 
> 
> Known solutions all have problems:
> [snip]
 >

If it bugs people that much, I'd move the captions
above. We finally changed out design for this exact
same reason. We figured we already had captions above
tables so it wasn't unprecedented.

A side note: once our docs went online we realized
that having live links to figures that were about
1/32" away was ugly and potentially annoying. So, we
changed our style so that we only include cross-
references to a figure if the illustration is more
than a paragraph away from the reference. If it's
closer, we say "the following figure" with no live
link.

-- Janice

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