Text Insets with Frame10

[Joy Kocar]

Ditto what Jeff said.

We have FrameMaker 10 unstructured books.

Examples of insets are copyright information and terminology. We reuse
these in every book so they are consistent.

We use a spreadsheet to keep track of the insets and what books they are in.

Keep headings in the container file instead of the inset so you can plop
the inset anywhere in another book. In one book it may be a level 2 heading
while in another it may be a level 3.

Cross-references from one inset to another don't seem to work. If anyone
knows otherwise, please let me know!

We have a special paragraph tag that we use as the first paragraph in an
inset. If we don't, FM does weird things to the fonts. The tag uses a 2pt
font so it doesn't take up much space.

We have a separate Insets.book with all the insets so we can do global
searches. FM doesn't search insets within a container file. We can also
make global format changes if our template changes.

Off the top of my head, those are the things that come to mind. Hope that
helps.

Joy Kocar, EIT
Training Materials Lead Engineer
www.maptek.com




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> be combined as required for a particular customer. Has anyone used text
> insets with unstructured Frame? The discussion of insets in the Frame help
> (an oxymoron at best) is pathetic. I suspect that insets may be helpful to
> me and save me time with updates, which occur regularly. I would appreciate
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