| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
The description on the <FIGURE_FILE> tag states the following:
target-device
...
If you specify <FIGURE_FILE> for a given device and subsequently
process the file on another output device, no output will appear in
the position of the <FIGURE_FILE> tag.
When this situation arises, the figure and its heading do indeed
disappear from the document, although the figure does get listed in the
Table of Contents and <REFERENCE>s to the figure are resolved.
The tag processor could save a lot a wasted printing if it generated a
error (or warning) message that indicated that figures had been lost.
-- Ward
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 745.1 | Not lost, just concealed. | VAXUUM::DEVRIES | M.D. -- your Device Doctor | Tue Aug 04 1987 14:22 | 22 |
The figure is not "lost". With the <FIGURE> construct, you are
saying several kinds of things:
A figure goes here.
These are its attributes.
Leave this much space.
OR
For device A, get it from (filespec).
For device B, get it from (filespec).
...
If you want the presence of a figure to be conditional, I think
you'll have to make use of the conditional tags.
But you're right -- if you don't even get the figure heading, but
it appears in the TOC, something's wrong. Thanks for calling that
out.
--Mark
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| 745.2 | File-not-there warning is better | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Tue Aug 11 1987 15:22 | 12 | |
I would prefer to change it so that it issues a message indicating
that the file doesn't exist. The problem is that the actual output
of the figure sequence itself occurs by conditionals from <figure_file>
that are written to the TEX file. This is so that, presumably, you
can reprocess a TEX file for a different output device without going
through the tag translator. The approach therefore assumes that
if you have given a figure a caption, you reference it somewhere
and therefore you'd better have something happen no matter what
the output device.
-patti
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