Hi Steve... You can often get things to work well through careful use of keep w/ next/previous and widow/orphan control on the styles in the template. If there is a topic title that you always want to be at the top of a page you can use the @outputclass attribute and assign a value of "top" (or other likely string), then modify the EDD to test for that value and set the property accordingly.
However, if all that fails, you'll need to create a script to run on the book after it's been created. With FM10, you can use ExtendScript (as well as FrameScript and the FDK). If you're using DITA-FMx, you can set it up to automatically run this script each time you do a book build. Cheers, ...scott Steve Nelson wrote: > > Hi, > I'm using Frame 10 to create dita files, and have noticed that there > is a delta between the positioning of topics in the topic file, versus > on the composite fm after having converted the ditamap. > > Having worked in structured Framemaker previously, I'm familiar with a > creating a topic title style that would set the topic title to the top > of the next page (i.e., "title.0_top") if necessary. However, it seems > this would not be of use in dita, where the topic positioning can > always float around, depending on the content preceding it. > > Is there some way to tell Frame that, when there is a topic title > approaching the bottom of a page, and perhaps only one or two lines of > following content makes it to the page before the remainder of the > topic flows to the next page, to instead force that topic to start at > the top of the following page? > > Stephen Nelson > Technical Writer > Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell > 39 Main St. > Scottsville, NY 14546 > snelson at ambrell.com > 585.889.0288 (office) > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/3974 - Release Date: 10/25/11 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
