Karen Mardahl wrote: > My take on this - and I am looking for support, comments, or > modifications - is that you should have a unique table anchor > paragraph tag for anchoring all tables. I believe this gives > you best overall control. Two reasons so far: > > 1. A unique tag always gives good control over material. > 2. Wise formatting of this tag gives consistent spacing. And > because the formatting is built into a tag, you do not have > to resort to any manual formatting, which you might need to > do, if you just attach/anchor the table to the preceding > block of text or whatever.
Well, others have about covered this, but for the record, I agree with both these reasons. I never let tables float, and I never anchor more than one in each anchor pgf. They're always set to Start Anywhere, which means they're always immediately after the anchor pgf. Our table titles are above the tables (so jumps to them in the PDF take you to the top of the table, not the bottom). Thus, the anchor pgf controls the space above the table title and determines absolutely where in the flow the table appears. I use a pgf tag called TableAnchor that's 7 pt red text with 5 pt space above. Why 7 pt red? It's the smallest text size for which the pilcrow (pgf symbol) remains visible at 100% on my monitor, and the red color just makes it easier to spot. I also use red for the other tags that are intended to be used only as empty pgfs -- FigAnchor and PageBreak. I don't mind the extra white space when a table starts at the top of the page, but as others have noted, you can eliminate that completely by using negative space below on the anchor pgf and the same negative space above on the table. Assuming you don't mind having your anchor pgf completely hidden by the table -- I suppose I could get used to that, but I'm not sure I like the idea. :-) Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
