Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing

[Steve Rickaby]

At 12:23 -0700 2/10/14, Robert Lauriston wrote:

>What is the benefit of putting a table anchor in its own paragraphs
>instead of putting the anchor at the end of the preceding paragraph?
>
>I've inherited lots of documents that do things like that and it
>seemed to me like pointless busywork, but the people who set up the
>templates were long gone so I couldn't ask for their rationale.

Main reason AFAIK is what happens to the text holding a table anchor when FrameMaker moves the table to the next page: some of the para holding the anchor is dragged there too, leaving excess white space at the foot of the preceding page.

There are many ways around this, but most of them become easier to manage if the table anchor lives in its own para.

-- 
Steve