width of table footnotes?

[Alan Houser]

Colleagues,

I'm creating documents that include narrow tables with multiple table 
footnotes. FrameMaker constrains the width of the table footnote text to 
the width of the table. I would prefer that the table footnotes appear 
across the entire column.

For example, in a single-column document, I may have a 3" wide table 
with five table footnotes of a sentence or two each. All of the table 
footnote text is crammed into a 3" wide space.

I've tried the "obvious" things in the FrameMaker GUI -- changing the 
footnote right margin (FrameMaker doesn't allow this), changing 
pagination/column settings in the paragraph designer (no effect), even 
mapping the table footnotes to a different paragraph format. I've tried 
these actions in structured and unstructured documents.

Am I overlooking an obvious work-around? I could possibly re-implement 
table footnotes in FrameScript, but would prefer to do that only as a 
last resort.

-Alan
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Fellow, Society for Technical Communication <http://www.stc.org>Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
Vice President, Society for Technical Communication
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