[Framers] Runaround properties for tables in FrameMaker?

quills quills at airmail.net
Fri May 10 15:22:57 PDT 2019


Place a text frame in the text flow, and set the run-around properties for that. They insert your table.

> On May 10, 2019, at 13:59, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You can't do that using table properties. You could if you created a text
> frame and inserted the table inside the frame. If you have standard table
> configurations that take up the same space on the page, you could probably
> save a text frame somewhere, copy and paste it in, then insert the table.
> Or Silicon Prairie has the Autotext plugin which would let you set it up in
> a document and insert as needed, frame and table at the same time.
> 
> Why are you trying to do this, btw? Is it because your tables aren't as
> wide as the page so you want to take advantage of the blank space?
> 
>> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:07 PM Peter Kelly <peter.kelly at qio.io> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Framers,
>> 
>> Have always had good advice from you so am out to test my luck again. Is
>> there a way of specifying runaround properties for tables? Whenever I have
>> a table in a main text flow, I am not able to make text runaround the
>> table. I've only been able to make text precede and follow. Creating a two
>> column layout for this just seems like a lot of work that would not be
>> re-used. Any advice is appreciated.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Peter
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> This message is from the Framers mailing list
>> 
>> Send messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Visit the list's homepage at  http://www.frameusers.com
>> Archives located at
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/
>> Subscribe and unsubscribe at
>> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com
>> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lin Sims
> _______________________________________________
> 
> This message is from the Framers mailing list
> 
> Send messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Visit the list's homepage at  http://www.frameusers.com
> Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/
> Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com
> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com



More information about the Framers mailing list