I keep my overrides to pagination-related overrides. Removing these overrides will only affect the pagination, which I check anyway before completing a book. The main problem with overrides is that it will make changes later that will be difficult to find and/or fix.
Having said that, if I would start with a clean book with no overrides (meaning if I wrote it from scratch), I can see the advantage to using no overrides, and a special paragraph to force new pages, since there is always that doubt about whether some overrides were added for non-pagination reasons. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Owen, Clint wrote: > Deirdre, > > In my opinion, Top of Page type overrides to force improved pagination > much more acceptable than other types of formatting changes. One of the > last steps in our process is to go through the document and check for > awkward pagination. Then we move figures and tables around or force a > heading to the next page to improve the look and flow. If something else > changes, we just have to do it again. It just makes a better product. > > Clint > > > Clinton Owen | Senior Technical Writer | Crane Aerospace & Electronics | > +1 425-743-8674 | F: +1 425-743-8113 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Deirdre > Reagan > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:42 AM > To: Framer's List > Subject: question about overrides > > Hi all, good morning. > > FM 8.0, XP. > > This is really a best practices question. > > A couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion about overrides, and how > they should be used rarely or not at all. > > So I thought about that and started to watch our use of overrides. > > We use overrides all the time. For instance, if a figure would be > better placed at the top of the next page, we create that override (our > figure tag is set at Anywhere). > > We also used Top of Page when we want to keep a paragraph from breaking > over two pages. > > Is it really preferable to create a paragraph tag for each instance of > formatting? I'd end up a lot of one-time-use-only tags. > > Also, most of these overrides occur in the editing process, after the > content has been established and we are focused on making the document > look professional. Should I be creating tags as I edit the document, > rather than override the existing tag as I make layout decisions? > > A second question, now that I'm really thinking about this: > > I'm really bothered by the Top of Page as an override, because if we add > text to the front end, that override is going to force a Top of Page we > might not want. But I haven't been able to find a "keep together" > option, like Word has for keeping lines of text together. > Next Pgf is similar, but it works differently in significant ways. > You can't Next Pgf a single paragraph, for instance, but you can keep it > whole without forcing it to the top of the next page in Word. > > Anyway, any comments and insight into the override / editor's role / > tidying up the document / is there a "keep together" issue would be most > welcome! > > Thanks, > > Deirdre > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as > Clint.Owen at craneaerospace.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/clint.owen%40craneae > rospace.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. 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