FM 8 - Change Bars

[Linda G. Gallagher]

Ah, it does work if the anchored frame is set to At Insertion Point, but it
does just the short line if you have it set to Below Current Line. I think
that's what I was thinking about. I frequently shrink wrap graphics, so they
end up set to At Insertion Point.

Another way that I sort of works, but is still a bit of a kludge (but not
something you have to remember to after) is this:

1. Enter a space in the anchor tag.

2. Go the paragraph below the anchored frame, and enter a space there
somewhere.

3. Delete that extra space.

It will be a bit ambiguous about that next paragraph, so it's certainly
imperfect. 

I found that I do like the track edits feature in FM, which shows the actual
text edits (but I don't think it helps if you just replace the graphic
that's in an anchored frame).


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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Litchfield [mailto:alan at alphabyte.co.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:24 PM
To: Linda G. Gallagher
Cc: 'Dave Reynolds'; 'Framers'
Subject: Re: FM 8 - Change Bars

Hi Linda,

That only puts a short bar with the paragraph and does not extend the  
full length of the anchored frame. Which is the really annoying thing.

This is what I have suggested and seems to have got around the problem  
unless something better emerges:
> In the past (in flight manuals, for example) we have resorted to
> putting an anchored frame that is the same height as the image's frame
> outside the column (on the same side as the change bars of course) and
> then using the line drawing tool to draw a vertical line in the
> anchored frame. This allows you to have the line follow the image if
> it reflows and can be easily deleted when required by deleting the
> anchored frame - you just have to remember to do that manually.

I was reminded of that approach by Dave (thanks).

It is not the best but does the job.

Cheers
Alan

On 30/04/2009, at 10:18 AM, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:

> I believe that I've "faked it out" by enter a space in my anchor tag  
> for the
> anchored frame. I'm not in FM right now, but I think that will put the
> change bar along the entire anchored frame.
>
>

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