Re: [PATCH] ox-html: Allow "Figure %d:", etc. to be styled

[Kodi Arfer <kodi@arfer.net>]

On 2013 Jul 09 Tue 3:53:26 PM -0400, Nicolas Goaziou 
<n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kodi Arfer <kodi@arfer.net> writes:
>
>>  From a873d204b2c4f3facf2d8658f69764acbd063246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Kodi Arfer <git@arfer.net>
>> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:51:56 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH] ox-html: Allow "Figure %d:", etc. to be styled
>>
>> * lisp/ox-html.el (org-html-paragraph): Wrap "Figure %d:" in
>>    <span class="figure-number">.
>>    (org-html-list-of-tables, org-html-table): Wrap "Table %d:" in
>>     <span class="table-number">.
>>    (org-html-list-of-listings): Wrap "Listing %d:" in
>>    <span class="listing-number">.
>> * doc/org.text (CSS support): Mention .figure-number,
>>    .listing-number, and .table-number.
>
> Thank you for the patch.

De nada.

> Wouldn't it be more future-proof to wrap them within the same CSS entry?
> Otherwise, if we ever introduce other caption types, we'll need to
> remember to add another entry for it.
>
> Obviously, my question assume it is very unlikely that someone would
> want different styles for captions. But I may be wrong.

One case I know of is APA style. Here are some examples from the APA 
publication manual. "Figure 1" is supposed to be italicized and inline 
with the caption ( http://i.imgur.com/u6jsfJx.png ), whereas "Table 1" 
is supposed to be upright and on its own line ( 
http://i.imgur.com/3gvxEdd.png ). Admittedly, APA style is crazy, and 
you have to be additionally crazy to want APA style in HTML.

We could still use the same class and then expect people to use 
selectors to be as specific as they want (e.g., if the generic class is 
~.caption-number~, one could use the selector ~caption .caption-number~ 
for tables and ~figcaption .caption-number~ for figures, at least in 
HTML5). I think using different classes is actually simpler, though, 
because then we don't have to keep track of how selectable the different 
caption types are.

> BTW, do you have any news about your FSF papers?

I got an assignment form back from the FSF, and I returned scans of the 
signed form on July 1, but I haven't heard back since.

I guess there's not much of a hurry. I won't be firing off these little 
patches as much now that I've released http://arfer.net/daylight .