How do you create a new paragraph after a table?
Reng, Winfried
wreng at tycoint.com
Tue Jan 20 00:33:12 PST 2009
Hi,
When you set manual page breaks via "Special | Page Break",
you can decide, whether you want to remove them with a format
import. There is a check box "While Updating, Remove Manual
Page Breaks".
Best regards
Winfried
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 11:26 PM
> To: amakeler at gmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: How do you create a new paragraph after a table?
>
>
> 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
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