question about overrides

[Jim Owens]

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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