[Framers] heading text in "Running H/F #" - clever truncation ?

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Monique,

I would configure the Running H/F variable to use one of the <$marker#> building blocks. Then I would create a simple script that would read each heading, and add a Header/Footer $# marker to the paragraph, truncating the text to a certain length and add an ellipses at the end. You could do this manually, but if the FAQ doc is long, scripting it would make it easier to maintain.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick at frameexpert.com

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From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Monique Semp
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 12:01 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] heading text in "Running H/F #" - clever truncation ?

Hello, Framers,

For an FAQ doc, I’ve broken the usual “rule” of sensible-length headings because I’m making them be the full text of a question. So with the font size, the headings are often 3- or 4-lines.

The problem is that I have my master pages configured to include the heading text in the recto footers, via the “Running H/F #” variable. And with these very long headings, the text overruns the available space in the footer, pushes the footer “artwork” (just a nice pipe line between the heading text and the page number) to the wrong spot, and completely obliterates the page number.

So, what sorts of schemes/work-arounds have people created to deal with this sort of issue?

(I can imagine creating a new heading style for the long-winded headings, creating a new hidden-text heading style for the truncated text that I’d wish in the footer, and then adding the style for the truncated heading to the “Running H/F #” definition, which already has multiple styles to account for, for example, “heading 1” and “heading 1 page”. But this is certainly a hassle, and won’t be at all obvious to some other writer, or my future self.)

Thanks for suggestions,
-Monique
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