Fm10 Tables and Change Bars

[Chris Coggins]

This cell padding idea worked ok to accomplish what I need. But I had to
set top at 3pt and bottom at 2pt, anything less caused the bars to rejoin
as one. I tried to compensate for the added vertical growth by adjusting
line spacing and font size, but couldn't exactly match the rows per page
that I had before.

BTW, for the other replies to this issue: I'm in unstructured frame, and my
initial workaround was to draw individual lines beside the rows. It was
tedious but worked ok for that delivery. Glad to figure out an easier
solution for the next go around.

Chris


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mark the paragraph inside a cell in the row rather than the row itself and
> the change bars should remain separate. Or at least that's how my copy of
> FM9 behaves. For my purposes, I actually would prefer that it *didn't* work
> this way.
>
> Although now that I think about it, it may depend on how the table format
> is set up as far as cell padding is concerned. If all the vertical space
> around cell contents is provided by the paragraph's space before and space
> after rather than cell padding, FrameMaker may treat consecutive rows as a
> continuous block of paragraphs. My tables all use cell padding, and the
> change bars are only as tall as the paragraph(s) that are marked inside the
> changed cells.
>
> -Fred
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:45:33 -0500
> Subject: Fm10 Tables and Change Bars
> From: cacoggins at gmail.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>
>
> I have 6-column tables taking up dozens of pages, with each row containing
> only 1line of text. Due to the customer's request, I need to have the
> change bars appear as individual change bars beside each row, even along
> consecutive rows, rather than one solid change bar down multiple rows. Does
> anyone know how to force Fm10 to do this? I've used tables before where
> this was possible, but do not know which settings to adjust to make my
> current table's change bars behave similarly.
>
> I tried putting a paragraph return at the end of the text in a cell, then
> changing it to be a run-on punctuation so that the row doesn't grow. Then
> selected the changed text in another cell to apply the change bar, but it
> doesn't work. Once I mark 2 consecutive rows that way, the two change bars
> join and form only one when the display is refreshed, even with the hidden
> paragraph return.
>
> Chris
>
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