How do you create a new paragraph after a table?

[Fred Ridder]

Avi Makeler wrote:
 
> Thanks for the responses.
> 
> >> You could choose Special> Page Break. The problem with that method is
> >> that FrameMaker removes the page break anytime you remove overrides.
> 
> What?! Really?! In Word this is style independent and is a hard break , as
> real as typing "avi" or any ASCII character(s). 
 
That's because Word inserts a control character that *is* the page break.
FrameMaker does not. You force FrameMaker to break the page either by
specifying the start location for the paragraph that follows the break (to
"top of page" or "top of column"), or by specifying a large enough "space
below pgf" for the preceding paragraph so that the next paragraph cannot 
possibly occur on the same page. In either case, unless you create a 
dedicated style (e.g. H2_newpage or Body_breakafter), the formatting 
that forces the break is a format override. And if you follow the common
beneficial practice of periodically eliminating overrides by re-importing the 
template's formats into your document, you will eliminate those page 
breaks when you do the import.  
 
> No way of making a permanent  page break?
 
The way of making a persistent (noting is ever truly permanent...) page
break is to define one or more paragraph formats that are specifically 
defined to produce a page break.  But as others have noted, it's generally
a bad idea to use persistent page breaks because they are very likely to
become inappropriate as the text expands and contracts due to editing
and revision of the document.  The approach that entails the least work
to maintain is to ignore page breaks until you are preparing for final
publication, and to strip out all the manual breaks as the first step before
you start making revisions for the next edition of the document.
 
> And if I make a Heading style that starts at the start of a page, I will
> have to make a variant like that for H2, H3, H4 and H5.
 
Also note that you'd need to remember to include *both* variants of 
each heading in the "include" list when you set up your TOC. Otherwise,
you'd only get the headings that don't start a new page.
 
The other approach is to control the break from the preceding page by
using a non-content paragraph that has its "space below pgf" formatting
set to the vertical dimension of your main flow text frame. When you 
insert that paragraph, it will inevitably force the next paragraph to 
the top of a new page. And because it is a single-purpose paragraph 
that you never use to hold content, you can globally delete them to 
get rid of all your manual page breaks before starting a new version of 
the document. 
 
-Fred Ridder