question about overrides

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I don't see how it's possible to develop a template that gives you a 
flawless page. I find it's a judgment call to decide how many rows of a 
particular table to keep on a page or to move to the next page.

Is it possible to tell FM that if there are 5 or less rows in a table, 
move the whole table to the next page?

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133



Jim Owens wrote:
> If you want a page layout that FrameMaker cannot deliver automatically, 
> then overriding the template for the printed output is your only option.
>
> The alternatives are to devise a template that produces a flawless page, 
> or at least an acceptable one, every time; or to lower your standards 
> for page layout and just print whatever your template produces.
>
>
>
> Deirdre Reagan wrote:
>   
>> Hi all, good morning.
>>
>> FM 8.0, XP.
>>
>> This is really a best practices question.
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion about overrides, and how
>> they should be used rarely or not at all.
>>
>> So I thought about that and started to watch our use of overrides.
>>
>> We use overrides all the time.  For instance, if a figure would be
>> better placed at the top of the next page, we create that override
>> (our figure tag is set at Anywhere).
>>
>> We also used Top of Page when we want to keep a paragraph from
>> breaking over two pages.
>>
>> Is it really preferable to create a paragraph tag for each instance of
>> formatting?  I'd end up a lot of one-time-use-only tags.
>>
>> Also, most of these overrides occur in the editing process, after the
>> content has been established and we are focused on making the document
>> look professional.  Should I be creating tags as I edit the document,
>> rather than override the existing tag as I make layout decisions?
>>
>> A second question, now that I'm really thinking about this:
>>
>> I'm really bothered by the Top of Page as an override, because if we
>> add text to the front end, that override is going to force a Top of
>> Page we might not want.  But I haven't been able to find a "keep
>> together" option, like Word has for keeping lines of text together.
>> Next Pgf is similar, but it works differently in significant ways.
>> You can't Next Pgf a single paragraph, for instance, but you can keep
>> it whole without forcing it to the top of the next page in Word.
>>
>> Anyway, any comments and insight into the override / editor's role /
>> tidying up the document / is there a "keep together" issue would be
>> most welcome!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Deirdre
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