Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when
columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to
this posting.

Is this a problem that others have experienced?

Bodvar

On 8/27/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is an oldie, but I cannot find the thread(s) that dealt
> with it. And it is Monday and everyone is fresh and rested after a
> nice weekend. :-)
>
> I have on several accounts in the past few weeks come across one of
> the weird behaviours of FrameMaker (not so uncommon in other frame
> based applications) that one or two text lines hide between the bottom
> of the page frame (overflow) instead of flowing to the next page.
>
> A couple of weeks ago I noted a solid line in the bottom of a page
> frame and saw that a line was not flowing over to the next page but
> kept hidden, even if I printed the file. Since this has happened on
> several occasions, and I just cannot find out how to hunt these down
> in any other way than to look at the bottom of every page (and these
> will be some 800).
>
> My environment is M$ WinXP, FM 7.2 (structured), and all pages are
> two-column setup.
>
> Another and similar unacceptable behaviour is that sometimes a line of
> text overflows to the line above a footnote. I found out that was even
> harder to deal with.
>
> The way I dealt with the page overflow was to insert one or two hard
> breaks, forcing the lines over and then deleting the hard brakes. That
> seemed to work for the page overflow, but not for the text lines
> overrunning the footnotes.
>
> Any help to do away with these bastards in an orderly manner (other
> than to wait for FrameMaker 9.6) will be highly appreciated.
>
> Price: all the virtual pizza you can eat and whatever virtual you
> might want to drink! (Even on a Monday!). ;-)
>
> TBF
>
> Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
>