Annoying FM quirk

[Shane Taylor]

FM tends to treat empty paragraphs differently than those containing 
text. Changing the paragraph style to use a space character as an 
autonumber *might* fool FM into treating the paragraph correctly, but I 
haven't tested this.

Shane Taylor Technical Writer
WebAssign 919.829.8181 x147


On 11/10/10 2:19 PM, Spectrum Writing wrote:
> All,
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> I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak that is designed to do what the name
> implies - put in a PageBreak at specific location that I select. The tag has
> a 750.00 pt Below Pfg characteristic and I have also applied a bright
> Fuschia color so that I can differentiate the pilcrow for the tag from that
> of a simple Body tag. When I apply the tag, the pilcrow is displayed in the
> Fuschia color, but after that, boom, it's a crapshoot. Sometimes the pilcrow
> holds the color and other times, it doesn't and I have to go back manually
> reapply the tag. It's very annoying as when proof-reading/editing my
> documents, I need to confirm that the tag is indeed a PageBreak tag and not
> a Body tag. (If I were just printing the manuals, then it wouldn't be an
> issue, but I am single-sourcing these docs. and using ePublisher to produce
> online help, so the issue becomes critical for this.)
>
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> Has anyone experienced this or something similar at all? Why on earth won't
> the pilcrow hold the color?
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> FWIW, I am using FM9 (all patched and current) on a Win7 64-bit system.
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> TIA,
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> TVB
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> Tammy Van Boening
>
> Owner/Principal
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> Spectrum Writing, LLC
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> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
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> info at spectrumwritingllc.com
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