Synchronising left-hand graphics with right-hand text

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Malcolm and all:

For those who came in late, Malcolm Sinclair wants to have graphics on a
left-hand PAGE that float along with their explanatory text on the
right-hand PAGE.  Many great minds have attacked this problem -- with two
facing flows, A and B, two separate docs, etc. -- but with little success
(me, Malcolm, Wim -- hi!).

Here's my latest solution.

For an A4 document, set up a single-sided A3 landscape document (equals 2 x
A4 spread).

Create a text frame with sidehead area that spans the double-spread.

The sidehead area becomes the 'text frame' for the left page.

The sidehead area holds the graphics -- use a special Graphic paragraph
that fits in the sidehead.  Graphics are embedded in this para format as
inline anchored frames.

Make the gap big enough to act as the spine gutter which sets the LH page
right margin and the RH page left margin.

The body area becomes the 'text frame' on the right-page.

Normal page numbers won't work.  So set up a small text frame to hold the
page folio and create a new numbering para called Folios with a P:<n+>
counter.

[Malcolm: you will have to fake the 'sidehead area' on the right page by
indenting body paras and putting the sidehead material in an anchored frame
hanging in the left margin.]

Cross-references will have to be done in two bites, one for the <$paratext>
and one for the page number, which will be a cross ref to <$paranumonly>
pointing to the Folio para on the appropriate 'page'.

ToC and Index?   You will have to hand craft the page numbers after
generation.  Or you could use military section numbering (Ch. 1, Section
1.1, Section 1.1.1, etc.) and have the ToC AND Index entries reference the
section number alone. Or no doubt you could write a fancy FrameScript to do
this.

Regards,
Hedley

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Hedley Finger
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