Adding captions to images

Low priority but would it be possible to add captions to images?

Markdown supports this so I can imagine adding a menu item to the menu popup on the image itself. The caption should show-up below the image.

thanks -tom

Aaaaaactshually :nerd_face: Markdown’s text part for images is the alt text, for accessibility and as a picture stand-in.

https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

For captions that we would want to see in documents below figures, many proprietary ways exist to get them. Some depend on the website generator, or print conversion tool. It’s inconsistent and one has to pick a poison.

I’ve always just put captions below images as italicized text, sometimes in parentheses, depending on context.

That is understandable. Is this saying it’s only visible when accessibility features are enabled on the device or app?

Asking because even in their example you can see the alt text displayed below the image so I was just wondering if you could implement a way to fill-in the “Alt text” and “title” sections of the markdown image syntax highlighted below. If it is all about accessibility then agree but I don’t think that’s the only reason those parameters exist.

![ alt text goes here ](/assets/images/san-juan-mountains.jpg "Title Goes Here")

Just thought I’d ask.

thanks -tom

yea that would be nice if I had the ability to position an image and ensure it didn’t move but markdown doesn’t provide justification (left, right, center) of an asset. I am doing exactly what you mentioned and hoping it all works out.

And yes, I can use stylesheets or other presentation options to make it all work but I’m already creating more work for myself by using markdown which I’m at the moment ok going down this path until I run into a hard wall or time investment becomes too much.

-tom