RE: going with (or against) the flow

["Richard Combs" <richard.combs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Foster [mailto:dfoster@Brixnet.com] wrote:
 
> I have a master page with this (unfortunate) flow, from top to bottom:
> 
> Flow B -- a chapter number
> Flow C -- a chapter title
> Flow A -- the chapter body
<snip> 
> 3. If not, what's the easiest way out of this mess? To create 
> a new master
> page with the frames in their proper order?

David, take heart in the fact that you're not alone. It seems to me that this topic came up more than once recently (on one list or the other), and without a satisfying answer. Various people opined that the creation order of the frames mattered, or that their "front to back" layering order on the page mattered. But it seems to me that each such suggestion was met with "I tried that, and it didn't work." 

To me, the easiest solution is to _put all the frames into the same flow, and connect them_. Why not? I've never understood what people gain by setting up title pages with multiple flows. 

For that matter, I suspect most title page layouts can be accomplished with only one _frame_. I assume the paragraph tags for the chapter number and title are used only for those items, so why not define them (and the title page frame itself) to position them where they belong? 

I've never used more than one flow for anything except a newsletter. Am I just missing something? 

Richard

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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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