I use a skinny little paragraph style called figure, 2pts, no space above or below, centered. I always put my table and figure anchors in a figure paragraph. I like the control I get, especially since I like to keep para text together and not have a whole paragraph pulled to another page just so the table fits. It is sometimes a pain in the neck selecting the invisible skinny little figure para, but when you gets used to it, it becomes easier. I thought for awhile of putting useful note text in the para in white, but then never had a need for it. I work alone. YMMV. john
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Karen Mardahl Sent: Wed 6/28/2006 8:03 AM To: framers at frameusers.com Subject: table anchors - best practices? Richard Combs had a comment in the thread "Question about the hyperlink from the LOF to the figure": "NOTE: There's a good case to be made for anchoring tables in their own empty pgf, not at the end of the preceding text pgf, but I don't want to complicate this any further. :-)" This made me curious! I searched the archives, and I found 2 relevant threads, which provided more food for thought: "small paragraphs for adding tables" from Sept. 1, 2005 "RE: start a table at top of column?" from Sept 18, 2005 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. Right now, our policy is no separate paragraph tags for tables. I am currently working on a monster manual with over 600 tables. There are many situations where you have table after table with no text inbetween. Based on this, I want to propose that we do have a unique tag for anchoring tables. Richard's comment came at a perfect time, so now I am asking what the rest of you think - or whether Richard wants to reveal his reasons? I'd like to hear what people have to say. Thanks! regards, Karen Mardahl PS Just FYI: Unstructured Frame 7.1p116 WinXP _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jsgammato at imprivata.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jsgammato%40imprivata.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
