[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[David Creamer]

As mentioned in my first post, InDesign does not have table variables (unfortunately).

The table title can be a regular paragraph style that runs above the table and is kept with the table, so not having a “table title row” doesn’t really have an impact either way. The table styles can have chapter-based numbering setup just like Frame.

Table styles can—and should—control table rules; cell styles are for _overrides_ to the default table style settings. Most table features have been the same since CS3.

David Creamer
IDEAS Training

-----Original Message-----
Date: Monday, June 26, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Framers Digest, Vol 135, Issue 19

    FM enables you to add variables to running table titles - e.g., ?Continued? or ?page x of y,? a feature that doesn?t exist in InDesign. If you bang around on the web you?ll find discussions of workarounds in ID, but they?re all a bit of a hassle. I once worked on a publication that contained two tables that ran 300+ pages. The ?page x of y? feature was definitely useful.
    
    ID doesn?t distinguish between a table title row and heading rows.
    
    It?s been awhile, so I?ll probably get this about half wrong, but I seem to recall that table rules are built into the cell styles. This has caused me some problems in the past. Sorry to be so vague, but that?s as much of it as I remember.