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Originally Posted by Toxaris
As has been said many times. Don't make it too complex, because for sure it will break on a reader or reading program.
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Never mind that learning how to do this the SVG way is turning out to be like taking a graduate course in physics or chemistry or something -- and all just to learn how to boil water.
After all this, while I genuinely do GREATLY appreciate all the help that everyone has been giving me, and while it has indeed been instructive for me and perhaps down the road I will make good use of what I've learned (along with resources for what I still need to learn about this, of course), for this current project it all just seems like overkill, making everything
so much more complicated for practically no other reason than because we "can" (make it more complicated).
Surely doing it the way I was going to before -- with a simple 4:3 landscape image (changing the width/height to 90% or something) with a simple small-sized caption underneath -- is a reasonably workable solution, one that will no doubt work out just fine the vast majority of times (and is easily fixable by the user if/when it doesn't), and also ensures that my captions are styled exactly in keeping with how the rest of the book is done, to boot?
I really do appreciate everyone's help on this -- and thank you all so much for that -- but I honestly just don't get it, what the point is in making things so very complicated, just to acheive some rather negligible advantage (that isn't guaranteed to work all the time either). I think that, after all this, I'll just do it the way that I was going to before (plain ol' HTML).
But with that said, I'm not so closed-minded about this that I can't be convinced otherwise -- I just need a pretty good argument to that end, that's all.