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-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [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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