This does get the desired result, though this is similar to my current solution. The content isn’t *really* a table, so <informaltable> doesn’t accurately describe what it is.
Logically, I would think that <mediaobject> with 2 <imageobject>s would make the most sense, but when I transformed that into HTML, only the 1st image displayed. The description of <mediaobject> in TDG5 does state that it can contain “one or more…” for objects, but perhaps that means one or more different objects, not two objects that are the same.
See
http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/mediaobject.html
-David
From: Roland Burda [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:25 PM
To: David Goss
Cc:
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Side-by-side images
David!
I use tables to get two images side-by-side.
This is my workaround for the issue:
<informaltable frame="none" rowsep="0" colsep="0">
<tgroup cols="2">
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>
<para>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref=""/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</para>
</entry>
<entry>
<para>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref=""/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
Cheers,
Roland
2012/2/22 David Goss <>
Hello,
What is the proper way to display two images side-by-side?
The way I do this now is to put two <inlinemediaobjects> into a <para>.
The HTML output is two images side-by-side aligned to the left. Playing
with the align attribute in the <imagedata> tags results in text for the
proceeding paragraphs to creep up in the space between them, since they
are inline. Using the <mediaobject> would separate the images onto two
different lines.
<para>
<inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref='...' />
</imageobject>
</inlinemediaobject>
<inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref='...' />
</imageobject>
</inlinemediaobject>
</para>
I feel like I'm tagging these images wrong. <inlinemediaobject> doesn't
really describe the content here since they're not *really* inline.
Is there a "right" way to accomplish this (other than combining two
images into one)? My goal is to get two images side-by-side, center
aligned, though a solution that would work for more than 2 images
side-by-side would be ideal.
Thanks,
DAVID GOSS | Technical Writer
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