Tim J. Slager wrote: > I have a multi-page table that skips to the next page to start, leaving > most of the previous page blank. The table is preceded by a heading. > Both the heading and the table start on the next page. > - Table is set to Start: Anywhere > - Heading is set to Start: Anywhere > - When I change the heading to body text, the table starts on previous > page as it should. > - All pertinent settings in the heading seem to be identical to those > for body text. > - Hold on. If I clear the Keep With: Next Pgf for the heading, the > heading and table don't jump to the next page. This doesn't make sense > to me but, hey, it works. > - I'm downgrading this inquiry from Help! to Why?
I'm guessing that your table is anchored in the heading pgf instead of in its own anchor pgf. In that case, the heading's Keep With Next Pgf setting tries to keep it with the pgf that follows it, which is the first pgf after the table. Unlike Word, FM's object model doesn't treat a table as a continuation of the main text flow. (That's why, unlike Word, you can't move the cursor into the table from the preceding text flow.) An FM table is more like an anchored frame. Both tables and anchored frames are represented in the flow by a single zero-width character, the anchor. And for all intents and purposes, the frame or table resides in the pgf in which it's anchored. If you turn on View > Text Symbols, you can easily demonstrate this to yourself. Put the cursor somewhere to the left of the table anchor in the heading pgf preceding the table. Now press the right arrow key repeatedly. When the cursor reaches the end of the heading pgf, the next key-press takes it to the beginning of the pgf following the table. That pgf is what actually follows the heading pgf in the main flow, since from a flow perspective, the table is contained in the heading pgf. HTH! Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
