Clarification of table title problem.

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Rhea,

I am verifying the behavior you are seeing. There are two workarounds:

1) If the first paragraph in the title is centered, it will constrain the 
whole title to the width of the table. You could have a tiny, blank, 
centered paragraph in each title just above your normal, left-aligned title.

2) You could use FrameScript to automatically set the right indent on the 
title paragraph equal to

text column width - table column width

This would eliminate the need for the dummy centered paragraph before the 
real one. A script like this could be triggered automatically whenever you 
save the document.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com



>I recently posted a message with the subject "Width of table titles." In it 
>I said that when my table title paragraph tag has the flush left property, 
>the text rect that contains the title changes to become as wide as "the 
>whole column." I should have said it changes to become as wide as the whole 
>text column that the table is in.
>
> Since my tables are generally narrower than the text column they're in, 
> this is a problem. I don't want the titles to be wider than the tables. I 
> can't find any way to make the titles narrower when the title paragraph 
> tag is flush left. The minute I change the title para tag to be centered, 
> the text rect that contains the table title changes to become exactly the 
> width of the table. But as luck would have it, I don't like centered 
> titles. I like flush left titles.
>
> What puzzles me is that I've used FrameMaker for over 15 years and I don't 
> remember ever having this problem before. But now it occurs in even a 
> brand-new generic FrameMaker file.
>
> TIA
>
> Rhea Barron
>
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