FrameMaker 10: Condition tag - background color in table rows

[Shlomo Perets]

Steve,

You wrote: [long ago, but I did not see any on-list responses]

>As per the Adobe FM10 help, I can apply a condition tag to a whole row
>in a table. However, as I have Style and Color set to ‘As Is’ and
>Background set to a color, I’d expect to see either the text in the
>cells or the background of the whole selected row appear in the
>particular color. No color at all is displayed for the text or row ­
>so it’s not obvious that a condition tag has been applied to that row.
>Is this just how it works, or is there a way of displaying the
>allocated background color when a condition tag is applied to a table
>row?
>
>For info, the condition tags’ background color works OK for main body text.

Similar experience here, when the color is set "As Is" and a background 
color is specified: either no color at all for the conditional table row, 
or a generic *grey* criss-cross pattern around inside cell borders 
(independently of the color selected for the background). Conditional tags 
applied to text inside the cell do show as expected.

Another general problem related to using background color for conditions, 
regardless of the color setting and tables, is that the marker text symbol 
inside the conditional area disappears altogether when it is at the left 
margin (not just truncated as is normal). This means that even with View > 
Text Symbols, you can easily delete markers without knowing or without 
being notified.

Even when not at the left margin, the marker and other text symbols display 
incorrectly when a background color is applied (Tab symbol disappears 
entirely; marker/anchor/non-breaking space display partially).


Shlomo Perets

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