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

[Fred Ridder]

Without addressing the specific questions you have asked, I'd like to suggest that you document any out-of-the-ordinary setups or practices in the master pages. It's a little-known fact that you can put text into the dummy body frame on a master page, and that this text will be saved there but will never appear in your deliverable documents. If you store text this way on custom master pages, it *will* be subject to deletion if you delete the entire master page, but using the default left and right master pages makes the notes relatively immune to accidental deletion. The only downside is that everyone using the template will need to know to look on the master pages to find this kind of helpful information.


-FR

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net>
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