Proper positioning of dita topics on output

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Steve...

You can often get things to work well through careful use of keep w/ 
next/previous and widow/orphan control on the styles in the template. If 
there is a topic title that you always want to be at the top of a page 
you can use the @outputclass attribute and assign a value of "top" (or 
other likely string), then modify the EDD to test for that value and set 
the property accordingly.

However, if all that fails, you'll need to create a script to run on the 
book after it's been created. With FM10, you can use ExtendScript (as 
well as FrameScript and the FDK).

If you're using DITA-FMx, you can set it up to automatically run this 
script each time you do a book build.

Cheers,

...scott



Steve Nelson wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm using Frame 10 to create dita files, and have noticed that there 
> is a delta between the positioning of topics in the topic file, versus 
> on the composite fm after having converted the ditamap.
>
> Having worked in structured Framemaker previously, I'm familiar with a 
> creating a topic title style that would set the topic title to the top 
> of the next page (i.e., "title.0_top") if necessary. However, it seems 
> this would not be of use in dita, where the topic positioning can 
> always float around, depending on the content preceding it.
>
> Is there some way to tell Frame that, when there is a topic title 
> approaching the bottom of a page, and perhaps only one or two lines of 
> following content makes it to the page before the remainder of the 
> topic flows to the next page, to instead force that topic to start at 
> the top of the following page?
>
> Stephen Nelson
> Technical Writer
> Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell
> 39 Main St.
> Scottsville, NY 14546
> snelson at ambrell.com
> 585.889.0288 (office)
>
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