style following inset

[Rene Stephenson]

OK, bear with me - What about the situation where you have a text inset that's just a sentence, and there's no trailing paragraph break in the inset,  and you want to use the sentence mid-paragraph elsewhere? I can't seem to get the inset sentence to flow to the next sentence without a paragraph break showing up in the container doc that's not in the inset. It's like the file end character (that doubled-S squiggle thing) makes FM put a paragraph break there regardless of what I put after the inset marker. Is that just functioning as designed, and I'm not supposed to be able to use an inset that way? (...in which case, maybe a user variable is a better answer if it's just a sentence we need to reuse mid-paragraph...?)

How about when you have the inset preceding a paragraph of body text, and the last paragraph of the inset is supposed to be a numbered list, but the numbering won't hold if you follow the text inset with anything other than a numbered list?
 
Rene L. Stephenson






----- Original Message ----
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com>
To: Rene Stephenson <rinnie1 at yahoo.com>; mollye at clearpath.cc; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:22:54 PM
Subject: RE: style following inset

Rene Stephenson
 
> We have the same problem and have heard it's just a bug w/ FM 
> 7.2 unstructured insets. Our solution is to use Silicon 
> Prairie's Paragraph Tools to Remove Paragraph Overrides 
> immediately before generating the book for our output formats.

It's not a bug specific to 7.2, this behavior has existed forever. I
suspect it's related to the bug that produces a pgf override when a char
format abuts up against the pilcrow (end-of-pgf marker). 

There's no need for tools or repeated fixes. See my earlier post about
separating the text inset from the pilcrow with a space (or something).
That will eliminate the problem once and for all. 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
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