Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

[Alison Craig]

Fred:

Remember, I'm a newbie (to FM anyway) so I'm using it the way the consultant set it up.

My instructions to him were that the Table title had to be before the table and it had to include the Chapter/Appendix number. The table could also start with no indent or with a 10mm or 23mm indent, depending on the heading level under which it fell.

So I'm using what was designed for me.

As an additional note, there are times when a table actually has more than one title as this is a conditional book used to create 4 different user manuals. Because of differences in hardware technology on the Ultrasound systems, the table might describe similar things but be called something slightly different (eg, some controls are on a touch screen but another system has actual mechanical buttons that do the exact same thing).

If there is an easier/better way to handle things I am open to change - when my schedule permits (I am a department of one).

Alison


Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
Fax: (604) 279-8559
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>



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From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:33 PM
To: Alison Craig; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Landscape Tables in a Portrait Style Book

Alison Craig wrote:

> 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).

Others have responded with at least three different solutions, all of which are completely workable. But I'm curious why you are using a separate paragraph for the table title rrather than making the title part of the table object? One bigf advantage of making the title part of the table is that it repeats on each page if the table spans more than one page, and you can optionally include a "continued" user variable or a "sheet x of y" user variable to distinguish continuation pages from separate tables.

-Fred Ridder