XML/EDD Vertical Text Placement in Structured Frame 12

Ed Nodland enodland at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 10:10:25 PDT 2014


Tim

I would use the footer with markers.  Here are a couple of references.


http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WS2937A033-EFF3-4d85-BBB3-98214B54950D.html

and page 111 for read/write rules in
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/StructuredDev/Structure_Dev_Reference.pdf

Ed Nodland




On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Bjokne, Tim (Contractor) <
Tim.Bjokne.Contractor at usap.gov> wrote:

>  I am relatively new to structured Framemaker and am looking for the way
> to control the vertical placement of the XML content via the EDD, multiple
> text flows, or ____*?*____.
>
> I have a functioning EDD and Frame template into which I have successfully
> imported an XML file, which then takes on the font style as assigned by
> the paragraph and character styles. The problem is that the content is not
> vertically placed where I want it on the page. For example, some text
> that is imported needs to be immediately above the page number at the
> bottom of each page, regardless of how much of the page is filled with
> text, which varies significantly from page to page.
>
> Attached is a PDF of a couple of pages of what the finished product
> should look like. FYI-To get the text to appear vertically where I needed
> it, I inserted carriage returns manually. Without those carriage returns,
> there would only be one line break between the various sections.
>
> I assume (hope?) there is some way to control where the text appears in
> Structured Frame, not just the font style, size, bold, italic, left,
> right, center justification, etc. I have searched the web with every
> possible combination of search terms I could think of, but have had no luck
> in finding an answer.
>
> Any help with this would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Tim
>
> <<FrameContentExample.pdf>>
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