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Re: Best practice: Text flows in Frame templates

Subject: Re: Best practice: Text flows in Frame templates
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:28:56 -0800


Stephanie -dot- Seveska -at- abbott -dot- com wrote:


Question:
Since we want everything standard, including the size and placement of text
frames that appear on body pages, is it proper to tag the flow on the master
page, and turn off autoconnect, in order to have the correct text frame
placement and size appear on the body page? Will this cause problems later on
that I just don't see yet? I realize that this is not the way text flows in
Frame are intended for use, so can anyone suggest another method of
standardizing all of this nit picky stuff with out copying a text frame from
the master and pasting it onto the body?

Without actually seeing the project, it's difficult to give any advice about this situation. However, speaking generally, "best practices" comes down to functional questions, including:

- Will what you intend to do save work?
- Is it quicker than any alternative?
- Will it make revising documents easier (or, at least, not any more difficult)?

If your solution is functional, then use it. Don't worry about what is "proper" or what is "intended." That's putting the tools and methods ahead of the results. No software tool is perfect, and any community of users develops dozens of workarounds to make their life easier that were probably never considered by the developers. FrameMaker is no exception.

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Best practice: Text flows in Frame templates: From: Stephanie . Seveska

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