<div dir="ltr">John<div><br></div><div>I sent you a sample PDF, directly, of sidebars produced from an 800 page XML file and opened into Structured Framemaker.</div><div> </div><div>Are you using FM structured or unstructured?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes, you can only have one sidebar paragraph per textflow paragraph or it opens up whitespace in the text flow, but you can use linebreaks and styles.</div><div><br></div><div>We use the sidebar on the right. The left margin with the section numbers is done using margins and negative first indents</div>
<div><br></div><div>I use text, tables and images in the sidebar, but I have to wrap the images in a table, or I had problems and I don't remember what it was</div><div><br></div><div>Tables automatically flow over the sidebar, but I have styles for allow text in the flow to span across the sidebar.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So the answer to you first question is, yes it can do it. Next is to determine how to help you get it dialed in.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are using structured FrameMaker I could send you some of my tagging methods for this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ed Nodland</div><div>San Diego Data Services</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:43 AM, John Sgammato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.sgammato@actifio.com" target="_blank">john.sgammato@actifio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I just posted a question about importing formats from a sidehead-enabled template.</div><div>Here's a related question:</div>
<div>Assuming we can make the sidehead template work, we'd like to be able to put some content over there, while keeping it in Text Flow A. That works fine for a single paragraph - the following non-sidehead paragraph appears in the main column just where we left off:</div>
<div><br></div><div> 1 text text text</div><div>sidehead text 2 text text text</div><div> 3 text text text</div><div><br></div><div>But if the sidehead text includes multiple paragraphs, then the subsequent main column paragraphs are pushed below the level of the last sidehead para:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div> 1 text text text</div><div>sidehead text</div><div>sidehead text</div><div>sidehead text</div><div>sidehead text 2 text text text</div><div> 3 text text text</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>The sort of content we would put in the sidebar is Before You Begin, This Section Includes, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>We need to keep it in Text Flow A because ultimately it all goes into a knowledgebase with all the same content, but no sideheads.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I tried anchoring a text frame to the main column text and positioned over there, but I cannot put any content into it. I define it as a text frame, but it always reverts to a graphic frame.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Has anyone done this successfully?</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><br><table border="0" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.actifio.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.actifio.com/assets/sig_logo.png" alt=""></a> </td>
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