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Therese Harris reports: <<There are two full-page (8.5 x 11 inch) technical
drawings to go with this document. Each drawing is titled and numbered
something like: QRS Assembly, L0600-00.slddrw. The engineer who wrote the
doc and drew the tech drawings has up to 4 separate 'Figures' within each
full-page drawing (Figures 1 & 2 in one drawing and Figures 1-4 in the
second drawing). I think that labeling each portion of the technical drawing
as a 'Figure' may be misleading since readers may expect each 'Figure' to be
a separate drawing>>
In scientific publishing, the most common solution to this problem is to
label the overall diagram Figure 1 (or whatever), then apply large and
obvious labels (e.g., A, B, C) to each of the components of the figure.
Citations then look like "See Figure 1C" and so on. This preserves the
author's original goal of having all the components visible on the same
spread, which can be important to many readers in some contexts, but also
satisfies your need to meet reader expectations clearly.
--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an
accumulation of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a
house"--Jules Henri Poincaré
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