Something I forgot to mention about anchored frames.

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's one thing I forgot to mention when using At Insert Point for the 
Anchoring Position of an anchored frame. When creating a new anchored frame 
using the Anchored Frame dialog, you should normally set the Distance Above 
Baseline to the default value of  0.0 pt. This makes the bottom of the 
anchored frame coincide with the baseline of the empty FrameAnchor 
paragraph. However, if you subsequently resize the vertical height of such 
an anchored frame by using the mouse, you must re-enter the value of 0.0 pt 
in the Distance Above Baseline slot of the Anchored Frame dialog.

To see what happens if you don't re-enter the value of 0.0 pt, do the 
following test.

1. Create three empty paragraphs at the top of a page. Type one line of 
text in the first and third paragraphs. Turn Text Symbols on so you can see 
all three paragraph symbols.

2. Use the anchored frame dialog to insert an anchored frame in the second 
(still empty) paragraph, setting the anchoring position to At Insertion 
Point, the baseline to 0.0 pt, the height to 6", and the width to something 
less than the width of the text column. Observe that the empty second 
paragraph appears at the bottom right edge of the anchored frame.

3. In the second paragraph (the one to which the anchored frame is 
anchored), open the Paragraph Designer, set the Space Above and the Space 
Below to 20 pt, and click apply. Observe that the white space gap above and 
below the anchored frame is now 20 pt.

4. Now, use the mouse to substantially reduce the vertical height of the 
anchored frame. Observe that the position of the second paragraph (the 
anchor paragraph) is now substantially below the bottom edge of the 
anchored frame, and that the white space gap between the bottom edge of the 
anchored frame and the text in the third paragraph is now much greater than 
20 pt.

5. Click on the anchored frame, and open the Anchored Frame dialog. Observe 
that the value in the Distance Above Baseline slot is now a large positive 
value. Change the value back to 0.0 pt and click the Edit Frame button. 
Observe that this action restores the second paragraph to its position at 
the bottom right edge of the anchored frame, and that the white space gap 
between the bottom of the anchored frame and the text in the third 
paragraph is now restored to 20 pt.

EXPLANATION: Using the mouse (rather than the Anchored Frame dialog) to 
increase or decrease the vertical size of the anchored frame fails to 
retain the original Distance Above Baseline setting of 0.0 pt. If you use 
the mouse to increase the vertical height, the Distance Above Baseline 
value becomes negative, and if you use the mouse to decrease the vertical 
height, the Distance Above Baseline value becomes more positive than 0.0. 
So, each time you resize an anchored frame with the mouse, you must always 
click on the anchored frame, open the Anchored Frame Dialog, and re-set the 
Distance Above Baseline to 0.0 pt. Of course, there may be unusual 
situations where you might want to use a setting other than the default 
value of 0.0 pt for the Distance Above Baseline. Entering a positive value 
will put the bottom edge of the anchored frame above the baseline of the 
anchoring paragraph, and entering a negative value will put the bottom edge 
of the anchored frame below the baseline of the anchoring paragraph.

Notice also that using a negative value for the Distance Above Baseline 
will not affect the white space gap between the bottom edge of the anchored 
frame and the first paragraph below it, since, in that case, the gap is 
still determined by the Space Below setting for the anchoring paragraph.




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Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
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