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Re: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Joachim Ziegler <ziegler at mpi-sb dot mpg dot de>
- Cc: DocBook-Apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:10:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Use of titleabbrev in list of figurea and tables
- References: <3E54CF0D.1090408@mpi-sb.mpg.de>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:50:21PM +0100, Joachim Ziegler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just wondering why titleabbrevs are not used in the list of
> figures/tables.
>
> I have some tables and figures with a quite long description (given in
> <title>....</title>) and a short description (given in
> <titleabbrev>..</titelabbrev>).
>
>
> Now in the running text, when I have an xref to such a table or figure,
> the text from the titleabbrev is used by the stylesheets, but not for
> the list of figures/tables.
>
> Can this be turned on someway?
You could file a Request for Enhancement (RFE) at DocBook's
SourceForge site. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't want to
see this as the default behavior, but it could be an
option.
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