Text insets - best practices

Thu May 10 05:33:07 PDT 2007

Unfortunately not using structured but considering it.

Following the discussions but a long way off from making progress in
that area.

Anyway, thanks good to know for future reference.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Feimster [mailto:mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com] 
Sent: 10 May 2007 13:28
To: Robert Werner; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Text insets - best practices

If you are using structured frame, you can use the Inset Plus plug-in
from West Street Consulting. You don't have to use separate flows.
Instead, you identify content chunks by element or attribute.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
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rs.com] On Behalf Of Robert.Werner at appsense.com
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:10 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Text insets - best practices

I have started using text insets to share content between different
"container" files and I am concerned about the best practices for using
these. 

Some of the content items are one or two paragraphs long but some are
detailed procedures with tables, graphics, captions, notes, ordered and
unordered lists.

The same content appears in different files in separate books but at
different levels in the heading sturcture of each document. Because of
the formatting constraints imposed by the different levels of headings I
use in each container file, I have placed the source content of each
text inset in separate files with logical naming for each file. 

I was thinking however of placing related content in a single file but
in separate flows with unique names. I had tried creating a sample such
as this for importing the content for each separate item by referencing
the unique flow name. I found however that depending on how I was to
implement this, items with long tracts of text, graphic etc., would
either not be in full view or would overlap as each separate flow and as
more items were added with their own unique flow. Each one needing  to
be smaller. If, for example, an item contains a graphic that is larger
than the flow in which it is placed, the graphic overlaps the next flow
on the page and obscures the next flow from view.   

Is there a better way of doing this? 

Perhaps I could set up up a unique master page for each content item
with a unique flow name on each master page?

Alternatively, it may be less maintenance for me to simply place
individual content items with clear file naming in separate files.

I have only implemented this on a small scale at the moment but in the
future I anticpate more complexity and the need to contain files
together. I also might consider cross project sharing which presents
other difficulties. 

All comments, ideas or suggestions welcome. If you can share your own
experiences on this matter and how you resolved the issue I would be
grateful

Rob

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