Last week I said that we should not use OOo's default figures+
captions in a frame in the new user guides, because some of our active
members have encountered problems with conversions into other formats,
primarly MSWord.
I mentioned problems I'd had in converting to wiki format for the
purpose of putting the user guides on the website. I've now done some
testing and find that either I was mis-remembering or the conversion
process has changed. My tests show that in fact, converting figures+
captions in a frame to wiki format works much better (defined as: more
suitable to match the OOo wiki style) than converting figures and
captions in separate paragraphs.
Our primary (perhaps only) purpose with the template and instructions
for these guides is to produce an ODT file from which we can create
PDFs and wiki files, all with a minimum of effort. IMO it's entirely
irrelevant Whether the files can be cleanly and easily converted to
MSWord. (Other temmplates, produced for other purposes, may
legitimately have OOo-Word compatibility as a high priority, but I
can't see that our user guides files are in that category.)
Therefore I now strongly argue for keeping the OOo-default way of
handling figures and captions, that is the way we've been doing it for
the 2.x guides. I know that Michele agrees with this view.
Those of you who do want to separate the figures and captions into
separate paragraphs, please state your case. I've lost track of just
what the problems were, and how serious.
--Jean
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