Table Continuation Variable issue

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Wed Apr 1 13:05:34 PDT 2015


Hi Tammy

I think David had it right with the \n. Does that make a difference?

Regards
Alan

On 2/04/15 9:02 am, Tammy Van Boening wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> So, I entered by text for the TableTitle tag, pressed Shift/Enter in the
> first instance of the title, and then inserted the Table Continuation tag.
> It wraps the title, yes, but in the first instance, it wraps it and
> therefore, although the Continuation variable doesn't display, there is an
> extra line now between the table title and the table. As you scroll through
> the table, then the continued variable is displayed by itself in the second
> line. So, I just moved the location of the soft return to before the last
> word in the title, and OK, it looks a bit funky in the first occurrence, but
> it's doable.
>
> I appreciate the prompt replies from you and David, but what on earth is
> preventing this from wrapping as expected anyway?
>
> Thanks!
>
> TVB
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Owner/Principal
> Spectrum Writing, LLC
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan Litchfield
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> Subject: Re: Table Continuation Variable issue
>
> Long time since I had that one.
>
> IIRC I inserted a discretionary/soft return into the first instance of the
> title. When it gets to the repeated title it should break at that point.
>
> Since writing, David provided the same idea with \n.
>
> Alan
>
> On 2/04/15 8:36 am, Tammy Van Boening wrote:
>> FM 10, all patched, Win7, x64.
>>
>> When I addthe "Continued" variableto a table title, I expect thatit
>> should wrap the title text ontothe next page because thevariable
>> makesthe titletoo longfor one line. It won't do that. It will just
>> make one line of text and then cut anything off that would have gone
>> to the nextline, so the continuation variable isn't displayed. I have
>> tried mucking around with the Right indent setting in the Paragraph
>> Designer for the TableTitle tag, but although this solves the problem
>> for the one nuisance table title, it artificially forces all the other
>> table titles to wrap and become a two-line title, when one line will
>> hold the entire tag, including the Continued variable, so these TableTitle
> tags look funky.
>>
>> I am stymied.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> TVB
>>
>> Tammy Van Boening
>>
>> Owner/Principal
>>
>> Spectrum Writing, LLC
>>
>> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>>
>> TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com
>>
>>
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