Stretching a table footnote to the column width ...

[Syed.Hosain at aeris.net]

Thanks! I will give this a shot.

Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: knowhowpro at gmail.com [mailto:knowhowpro at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:26 PM
> To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Fwd: Stretching a table footnote to the column width ...
> 
> Sent before complete....
> Hi, Syed:
> 
> 
>  >  In tables that do not "stretch" over the entire page width, table
>  >  footnotes do not stretch to the page width either. They wrap --- pretty
>  >  much at the right edge of the rightmost table column.
>  >
>  >  Is there a way to change this? I.e., have the table be relatively narrow
>  >  and yet have the table footnote go all the way across the page (or to
>  >  some other setting point)?
> 
>  You can imitate table footnotes:
> 
>  * Change the table footnote paragraph format to white text, 2pt, no
>  space above/below, run-into paragraph. This makes them very small, all
>  on one line below the table.
> 
>  * Delete or rename the Reference-page table footnote separator frame.
>  This eliminates space between the table and the tiny invisible
>  footnotes.
> 
>  * Create a new paragraph format for your fake table footnotes.
> 
>  * Create a new cross-reference format for your fake table footnotes,
>  with the building block <$paranumonly>. Precede it with a
> character-format building block if you like, for example
> <Emphasis><$paranumonly>.
> 
> It works like this:
> 
> * Create a table footnote in a cell. The footnote's reference symbol,
> number, or letter appears at the insertion point. The actual footnote
> symbol, number, or letter appears below the table, white and tiny -
> almost invisible. Because its paragraph format is run-into, additional
> table footnotes will appear on the same line, until there are so many
> that they wrap to the next line.
> 
> * Below the invisible table footnote indicators, create a new blank
> paragraph tagged with your new table footnote paragraph format.
> 
> * Insert a cross-reference to the paragraph in the table that has the
> table footnote reference.
> 
> * The table footnote's reference symbol, number, or letter appears at
> the beginning of the paragraph.
> 
> * Type the footnote text; it wraps at the right margin as expected,
> independent of the table width.
> 
> NOTES:
> 
> * If you rearrange the order of the table footnote sources, or
> add/delete table footnotes, you'll need to use Edit > Update
> References All Cross-References to update the cross-references.
> 
> * If you insert new footnotes in cells before, or between others in
> the table, you'll need to create their fake paragraphs at the
> corresponding place in the footnote list that follows the table.
> 
> * Depending on your needs, you may want to create your fake table
> footnotes in a text frame in an anchored frame you create below the
> table.
> 
> You can find more about the principle involved here by reading the
> topic "Inserting more than one reference to a footnote," in FM Help.
> 
> Please report back to this list about your progress and results.
> Others on the list may have other suggestions, or improvements to add.