Insets and Tables: container paragraphs with no additional spacing

[Robert Lauriston]

How do users find the one they're looking for?

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm describing IC chip registers. There is absolutely no point in having
> text or a heading in between each one, and this particular piece of IP has
> about 500 or so of them.
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> As always, it depends on what you're doing and who your audience is.
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> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
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>> I would never have one table follow another without a heading or
>> explanatory text in between.
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>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I like to use my cursor keys to scroll from table to table, and putting
>> > each
>> > table anchor in its own paragraph lets me do that. If they're all on the
>> > same line, pressing the up or down arrow once pops you to the beginning
>> > or
>> > end of all of the tables that are anchored in the same line. I do a lot
>> > of
>> > documents with hundreds of tables that are one right after the other, so
>> > having an anchor anywhere but on its own line becomes a nuisance.
>> >
>> > Putting all the anchors in the same line also makes it much difficult to
>> > select just one table, since unless you are VERY disciplined about
>> > putting a
>> > space between them, FM drops the anchors on top of each other. And
>> > (again)
>> > if you have a lot of them, even using just a small space between can
>> > make
>> > the anchors wrap to another line (or three or four), which messes up
>> > your
>> > spacing all over again but for a different reason.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Stuart Rogers
>> > <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 2014-Oct-02 3:23 PM, 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.
>> >>
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