Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

[Alison Craig]

I'd love to try it but it says it's for FM8 and I have FM9 - isn't this a problem?

Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Anderson [mailto:brad at frameusers.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:38 AM
To: Alison Craig
Cc: Brad Anderson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

Alison,

I just posted an example of what I think you're trying to do.  Give this a try and let me know if this works for you.

http://www.beyondprint.com/2010/03/automating-landscape-tables-in-a-portrait-document/

Thanks,

Brad

On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Alison Craig wrote:

> Version: FM9 (9.0p237)
> Unstructured
> OS: XP Pro with SP3
> FM Experience: 10 months
> Tech Comm Experience: 15 years
> 
> 
> I am condensing a bunch of repeated table content into 2 or 3 tables. Due to the data format and my page size, I would like to use Landscape format tables in a Portrait format manual.
> 
> Using my Scriptorium book, I played around with their instructions but that actually made the entire Appendix Landscape which is not what I want/need as there will be a some regular title/text content that should be Portrait style, including the Appendix Heading.
> 
> My book files use Master Pages set up with right and left pages (these were configured by a contractor as I didn't have the experience to set this up on my own). I understand the concepts of what was done but perhaps not all the details which is why I tried the Scriptorium book to sort this out.
> 
> I think what I need are several text flows within the Appendix so that I can format the "table text flows" as Landscape but leave the rest of the document (including all Headers and Footers) as Portrait.
> 
> I've thought about using Text Insets to bring in the tables but I'm not sure how I would insert them in Landscape format - although I think I could create them that way in my existing Text Inset file.
> 
> FYI: I use table titles before the table (to which the table is anchored). I type in the title and format it with a Table Para tag that numbers the table based on Chapter/Appendix and the table number within the Chapter/Appendix (eg, Table 3-1: xxx, Table B-4: xxx).
> 
> Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Alison
> 
> Alison Craig, Technical Writer
> Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
> Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
> E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>
> 
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