It seemed simple enough. The style called for figure captions to be placed above figures (in fact, they were even called figure titles), and in my document, the caption was placed below the figure. I cut the caption, placed the cursor after the last sentence above the figure, and hit the Enter key. Surprise! The figure should have moved down, creating space for the figure caption to be pasted over it as a title. Instead, the figure stayed where it was, and text below the figu

The title piece of this fine collection is by Hilary Mantel, and it begins thus: "Three or four nights after surgery — when, in the words of the staff, I have 'mobilised' — I come out of the bathroom and spot a circus strongman squatting on my bed." I was immediately reminded of a healthcare book I edited in which the word mobilise occurred repeatedly. I was meeting this usage for the first time, but instinctively recognized it as jargon. On some occasions in the book it was