anchored text frames in sideheads

[Ed Nodland]

John

I sent you a sample PDF, directly, of sidebars produced from an 800 page
XML file and opened into Structured Framemaker.

Are you using FM structured or unstructured?

Yes, you can only have one sidebar paragraph per textflow paragraph or it
opens up whitespace in the text flow, but you can use linebreaks and styles.

We use the sidebar on the right. The left margin with the section numbers
is done using margins and negative first indents

I use text, tables and images in the sidebar, but I have to wrap the images
in a table, or I had problems and I don't remember what it was

Tables automatically flow over the sidebar, but I have styles for allow
text in the flow to span across the sidebar.

So the answer to you first question is, yes it can do it.  Next is to
determine how to help you get it dialed in.

If you are using structured FrameMaker I could send you some of my tagging
methods for this.

Ed Nodland
San Diego Data Services



On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:43 AM, John Sgammato <john.sgammato at actifio.com>
wrote:

> I just posted a question about importing formats from a sidehead-enabled
> template.
> Here's a related question:
> Assuming we can make the sidehead template work, we'd like to be able to
> put some content over there, while keeping it in Text Flow A. That works
> fine for a single paragraph - the following non-sidehead paragraph appears
> in the main column just where we left off:
>
>                            1 text text text
> sidehead text        2 text text text
>                            3 text text text
>
> But if the sidehead text includes multiple paragraphs, then the subsequent
> main column paragraphs are pushed below the level of the last sidehead para:
>
>                           1 text text text
> sidehead text
> sidehead text
> sidehead text
> sidehead text       2 text text text
>                           3 text text text
>
> The sort of content we would put in the sidebar is Before You Begin, This
> Section Includes, etc.
>
> We need to keep it in Text Flow A because ultimately it all goes into a
> knowledgebase with all the same content, but no sideheads.
>
> I tried anchoring a text frame to the main column text and positioned over
> there, but I cannot put any content into it. I define it as a text frame,
> but it always reverts to a graphic frame.
>
> Has anyone done this successfully?
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