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- | Often you will find that your book comes with captions. **All** captions will have to be reinserted to ensure proper formatting. | + | =====Captions===== |
+ | Often you will find that your book comes with captions. | ||
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+ | **All** captions will have to be reinserted to ensure proper formatting. | ||
====Inserting Captions==== | ====Inserting Captions==== | ||
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- Right click on the image | - Right click on the image | ||
- Select '' | - Select '' | ||
- | - Remove the label (i.e. Figure, Equation, Photo) | ||
- Keep the default position as "below selected item" | - Keep the default position as "below selected item" | ||
+ | - Remove the label (i.e. Figure, Equation, Photo) by selecting '' | ||
- Type or copy and paste the book's caption in the caption field | - Type or copy and paste the book's caption in the caption field | ||
+ | - Click '' | ||
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- Position you mouse over the Captions Style | - Position you mouse over the Captions Style | ||
- This will reveal a small black arrow {{: | - This will reveal a small black arrow {{: | ||
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- Select '' | - Select '' | ||
- This will open up a popup menu called ' | - This will open up a popup menu called ' | ||
- | - Change the font to Arial 12, remove | + | - Change the following: |
- | - {{: | + | - The font to '' |
+ | - Remove '' | ||
+ | - Select '' | ||
+ | - Select '' | ||
- | After you have modified the style it should stay that way for the rest of your editing. | + | {{: |
- | < | + | After you have modified |
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- | **video tutorial | + | < |
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====Odd Formatting Issues==== | ====Odd Formatting Issues==== | ||
Sometimes you will come across a book that has odd formatting. In these cases you still have to ensure the captions are reinserted appropriately. | Sometimes you will come across a book that has odd formatting. In these cases you still have to ensure the captions are reinserted appropriately. | ||
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**Captions Linked to Another Section** | **Captions Linked to Another Section** | ||
- | Sometimes you may get a book that has formatted the captions as links to another section of the book. An example of this would be //this title// | + | Sometimes you may get a book that has formatted the captions as links to another section of the book. |
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+ | An example of this would be //Vimy: the Battle and the Legend//. | ||
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+ | Some of the images had the caption ' | ||
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+ | After the basic edits for the eText the captions appeared as follows: | ||
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+ | In this case we used the credits found in the **Credits** Section at the back of the book and used that text as the caption in the Etext. | ||
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+ | Once Completed the captions in the Etext appeared as follows: | ||
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+ | We then deleted the **Credits** Section. | ||
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- | In this case you have to select the entire paragraph and insert it as you would any other caption. This example | + | In this case you have to select the entire paragraph and insert it as you would any other caption. This example |
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- | ====Q& | + | [[public:nnels:etext:start|Return |
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- | **Q: Instead of using captions, my book has numbered linked text (like endnotes) to a Credits section at the end of the book. Should I cut and paste the credits and use them for captions? | + | |
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- | A: I think that's a great approach - instead of the caption linking | + |