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DocBook Publishers: The Definitive Guide (Version 1.1.0 for DocBook Publishers V1.1 (based on DocBook V5.1b3)) |
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caption — A caption.
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A caption is an extended description of a mediaobject or figure or other formal or informal element. Unlike a textobject, which is an alternative to the other elements in the mediaobject, the caption augments the object.
Formatted as a displayed block.
These elements contain caption: equation, example, figure, informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, mediaobject, table.
The following elements occur in caption: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, table, task, variablelist.
audioobject, imageobject, inlinemediaobject, mediaobject, textobject, videoobject
See informalfigure for and example that uses caption.
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