Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Spectrum Writing
All, I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak that is designed to do what the name implies - put in a PageBreak at specific location that I select. The tag has a 750.00 pt Below Pfg characteristic and I have also applied a bright Fuschia color so that I can differentiate the pilcrow for the tag

Re: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Try setting the font size 2 pt., retain the distinctive font colroing, use autonumbering, and add 50 or so em-spaces in the the autonumber text field. This will result in a greeked non-printing line a couple inches long. To add an em space, use \sm. Baruch Brodersen On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:19

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tammy, You don't mention the font size of the PageBreak tag, but one thing you could do is apply some kind of autonumber (perhaps a bullet) to the format for when you are authoring/editing. Then, before you print, etc., you could remove the autonumber from the format. It's not perfect, but at

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread David Spreadbury
Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Spectrum Writing Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 11:19 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Annoying FM quirk All, I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Spectrum Writing
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Spectrum Writing Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:19 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Annoying FM quirk All, I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak that is designed to do what the name implies - put

Re: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Shane Taylor
FM tends to treat empty paragraphs differently than those containing text. Changing the paragraph style to use a space character as an autonumber *might* fool FM into treating the paragraph correctly, but I haven't tested this. Shane Taylor Technical Writer WebAssign 919.829.8181 x147 On

Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread David Spreadbury
) to start on the next page, essentially inserting a page break. Nothing is displayed on the screen because the point size is set to a very small amount, 1 or 2pt. --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Alison Craig wrote: From: Alison Craig <alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com> Subject: RE: Annoying FM quirk To: