Need help building a para Warning tag

[Steve Rickaby]

At 11:40 -0500 7/2/07, Knox Drew-KFP368 wrote:

>How do I build a paragraph tag that has the title "Warning," room for a
>para below, a graphic to the left vertically centered, and all of that
>bound by a filled rectangle?

I would approach this by building the whole thing as a two-column one-row table and using Silicon Prairie's AutoText plug-in ($10) to pop instances of it into the text as required.

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>I put the word "Warning" into Numbering in the Paragraph Designer but
>can't recall how to include a return for the warning text nor how to
>include the warning graphic.

I'm not sure that it can be made to do that.

>I'm also stuck in properly referencing the bounding box. I built a
>filled rectangle on the Reference page but that comes in either above or
>below the word "Warning" instead of enclosing it.

Tables make this problem go away. However, if you really really want to do it this way, you have to do it with two paras, one to hold the graphics. You then use negative spacing below the para containing the graphic, and negative spacing above the para containing the warning, to slide the graphic behind the warning para. But I have a feeling that FrameMaker's rendering engine won't handle a box that completely surrounds a para in this way, although I've used it to place an L-shaped rule under and to the right of text.

In structured FrameMaker you can design your elements to 'glue' binary para pairs like this together.

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