On 22 Jun 2005 at 0:32, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > * Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> [2005-06-22 03:46:35 > +0200]: > > Gorgeous! Thank You! That's real life! But again, submitting text to a > > database and to let the DTP people simply update the files and therefore > > the _frames_ before producing the plates could make the whole process a > > lot easier. > Would you make a definite statement that you are considering the text frames > to be an adequate level of abstraction? Would there be a need to become more > granular and go to text blocks within the text frames? As we transition to > character styles, every contiguous block of text that belongs to the same > character style becomes a separate entity that can be referenced and > substituted in its entirety. I would really like to arrive at a consensus > about the "editable text block" granularity if possible. If you have use a textframe as entity wouldn't that make a problem in the case of connected frames if the amount of text in the editable frame increases? What to to with the overflowing text? For me your approach with a paragraph as "editable text block" seems more logical. But this is just a thought of me.
Regards Ralf-Diether Ebel
