[Bioc-devel] minor suggestion for BiocStyle?

[Martin Morgan]

On 09/27/2014 10:01 AM, Andrzej Oleś wrote:
> Hi Ramon,
>
> many thanks for your feedback an for your nice suggestion! Having more
> distinctive image captions is for sure something worth considering. I
> personally like the idea of having them typeset in a slightly smaller font
> and with boldface label. Additional margin seems reasonable as well. I'm
> not sure about changing the label separator, though.
>
> If there are no objections I would be happy to incorporate this into
> BiocStyle.


Because

- It seems very easy for one style to conflict with another in LaTeX

- It's 'easy' (in the LaTeX sense of the word!) for the user to add their own 
customizations.

- Style is quite a personal thing

I'm not (without having looked at the changes!) in favor of this.

Martin


>
> Best,
> Andrzej
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am now using BiocStyle for most of the latex I produce (even non-bioc
>> related, such as teaching class notes) but I find that the text of the
>> caption is often not distinct enough from the rest of the surrounding text,
>> especially with multi-line captions.
>>
>> I fix that using the caption package, with options
>>
>> \usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf,
>> labelsep=endash]{caption}
>>
>>
>> (directly from p. 4 of the documentation).
>>
>>
>> I wonder if it might be worth to make something like this the default. (And
>> I of course understand that this falls under "highly subjective choice and
>> thus user customization" and is up to us to do it if we want, so disregard
>> if irrelevant).
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> R.
>>
>> --
>> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
>> Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
>> Facultad de Medicina
>> Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
>> Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
>> 28029 Madrid
>> Spain
>>
>> Phone: +34-91-497-2412
>>
>> Email: rdiaz02 at gmail.com
>>         ramon.diaz at iib.uam.es
>>
>> http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
>>
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