Re: VMs: Blanks

[elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Zitat von Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> > One might just as well ask "why are many labels so unreasonably short?" 
> 
> 
> In normal documents, it is not unusual to label things with short 
> identifiers, like "A" or "Fig. 1".
> ...
> Bruce
> 

Another approach:

The Sachsenspiegel (a 13th century German lawbook) features a column of text 
and a column of accompanying illustrations. Every illustration features a 
letter in a prominent colour. This letter (in this colour) is repeated in the 
text at the beginning of the text sequence the illustration belongs to.

http://www.tu-dresden.de/slub/proj/sachsenspiegel/sachs.html

bottom of the page illustrates this quite nicely.

So perhaps the labels in the VM serve the same purpose and are a "link" to the 
same word in the prose text, to which the illustration is a reference?

Cheers,

   Elmar


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