table anchors - best practices?

[Bill Briggs]

I also use a 2pt para with white text called "frame". I hang frames in it and put tables in it. Sometimes the text is used as well because one can cross ref to it.

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At 8:12 AM -0400 6/28/06, John Sgammato wrote:
>I use a skinny little paragraph style called figure, 2pts, no space above or below, centered. I always put my table and figure anchors in a figure paragraph. I like the control I get, especially since I like to keep para text together and not have a whole paragraph pulled to another page just so the table fits.
>It is sometimes a pain in the neck selecting the invisible skinny little figure para, but when you gets used to it, it becomes easier. I thought for awhile of putting useful note text in the para in white, but then never had a need for it. I work alone. YMMV.
>john
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>From: framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata.com at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Karen Mardahl
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>Subject: table anchors - best practices?
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>Richard Combs had a comment in the thread "Question about the
>hyperlink from the LOF to the figure":
>"NOTE: There's a good case to be made for anchoring tables in their
>own empty pgf, not at the end of the preceding text pgf, but I don't
>want to complicate this any further. :-)"
>
>This made me curious! I searched the archives, and I found 2 relevant
>threads, which provided more food for thought:
>"small paragraphs for adding tables" from Sept. 1, 2005
>"RE: start a table at top of column?" from Sept 18, 2005
>
>My take on this - and I am looking for support, comments, or
>modifications - is that you should have a unique table anchor
>paragraph tag for anchoring all tables. I believe this gives you best
>overall control. Two reasons so far:
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>1. A unique tag always gives good control over material.
>2. Wise formatting of this tag gives consistent spacing. And because
>the formatting is built into a tag, you do not have to resort to any
>manual formatting, which you might need to do, if you just
>attach/anchor the table to the preceding block of text or whatever.
>
>Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am
>currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are
>many situations where you have table after table with no text
>inbetween. Based on this, I want to propose that we do have a unique
>tag for anchoring tables. Richard's comment came at a perfect time, so
>now I am asking what the rest of you think - or whether Richard wants
>to reveal his reasons? I'd like to hear what people have to say.
>Thanks!
>
>regards, Karen Mardahl
>
>PS Just FYI: Unstructured Frame 7.1p116 WinXP
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