Re: How to encode subfigures?

Thank you for all these answers, I did not expect so many of them!

Semantically, the solution of using informalfigure and caption does not
seem appropriate: I would use a title for the figures outside the special
case of subfigures; indeed, the subfigures have a title—which an
informalfigure does not allow.

My main goal, for now, is more long-term storage than an immediate need, so
I am taking the GitHub issue road, but I'm taking your suggestions for my
immediate needs (without XSLT customisation for now, as I can live without
xrefs towards subfigures).

@Dave Pawson: it's rather two pictures, but very closely related, with one
common caption, and some details added for each of the two pictures
(instead of two figures whose title is a mix between the common caption and
the subfigure addition).

Thibaut Cuvelier

On 9 July 2017 at 11:40, Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/07/17 16:14, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:> I am trying to convert LaTeX
> subfigures into DocBook,
> > [...]
> >     <figure xml:id="somename">
> >         <title>Main figure</title>
> >         <mediaobject xml:id="somename-a">
> >             <textobject><simpara>A</simpara></textobject>
> >         </mediaobject>
> >         <mediaobject xml:id="somename-b">
> >             <textobject><simpara>B</simpara></textobject>
> >         </mediaobject>
> >     </figure>
> > </article>
>
> There are several ways to skin this cat. One is exactly what you have.
> Depending on the [graphical?] content of the figures, you could have
> Two other possibilities are:
>
>         <figure xml:id="somename">
>           <title>figure title</title>
>           <mediaobject xml:id="somename-a">
>             <imageobject>
>               <imagedata format="png" fileref="pic-a">
>                 <info>
>                   <title>caption for subfig a</title>
>                 </info>
>               </imagedata>
>             </imageobject>
>           </mediaobject>
>           <mediaobject xml:id="somename-b">
>             <imageobject>
>               <imagedata format="png" fileref="pic-b"/>
>             <textobject>
>               <para>Caption for subfig b</para>
>             </textobject>
>           </mediaobject>
>         </figure>
>
> > when putting xml:id at the mediaobject level, I cannot use xref in
> > order to point to them:
> >
> > Don't know what gentext to create for xref to: "mediaobject"
>
> We always write our own XSLT, so we have a handler to resolve the IDREFs
> which point at these, and it's a house business rule to use the
> convention of parent id with a hyphen and letter for naming multiple
> mediaobject IDs.
>
> ///Peter
>
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