I think the soft return is the simplest and most elegant solution. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson
William Abernathy wrote: > Here's an annoyance I'm stumped on. I've been working on updating my > group's template, which is a unification of two work groups' templates. > > One group had chapter title paragraph tags that addressed chapter > numbering with a simple auto-number, after which the writer was > required to enter a soft (linefeed) return to enter the chapter title. > The other group had a special frame on the First master page that > contained the chapter number, which would appear automatically, with > writers simply required to enter the chapter title in the adjacent > title line field. I proposed a simple alternative, which eliminated > the first group's required user input and the complexity of the second > group's extra master pages and paragraph tags. This was to use a > Chapter title paragraph tag that had the chapter number, a tab, and > the text. > > Would that life were so simple. > > The group decided that for readability, the chapter/appendix number > and the text should appear on the right margin. FrameMaker does not > like line feeds in the autonumber fields, so I accomplished this by > cunning subterkludge: I defined the Chapter and Appendix paragraph > tags as: > "C:<$chapnum>< =0>< =0>< =0>< =0>< =0>[ and 46 spaces ]" > > The 46 spaces forced a new line, everything stuck to the right margin, > and peace and love ruled the stars... > > Until we output the thing to PDF. [Frame 7.x outputting to PDF 5.0 > using Distiller 7.0 on Windows XP] > > The space-forced line feed results in repeated chapter numbers in the > PDF bookmarks. For example: > > 1 1 Chapter Title > A A Appendix Title > > Does anyone know alternatives for: > * Forcing a line feed in a chapter-heading paragraph format? > * Suppressing this bizarre repeated numbering? > > Thanks in advance, > > --William > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.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/sbw%40actcom.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
