Re: Breaking table row (longer than a page in length) across pages

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maureen,

I believe you're right -- I've never seen a more-than-a-page table row 
break across pages, though I haven't done any testing to check this explicitly.

If that's so, yes, your solution is clearly a manual one -- you do have to 
pay attention to page breaks in books like these when text rolls. It's 
painstaking work, but I don't think I'd trust a machine to make final 
decisions in such a case.


Just a general note -- we often deal with "how can I automate this" issues, 
and appropriately. Automation saves us tons of time, and as much automation 
as we can get is good.

That said, I find no matter how much automation is applied to book 
creation, at the end, the last N percent of improvement always comes from 
touching the thing, and I don't think there's any way around that. At some 
point, one has to turn pages to see what the machine actually did, and then 
apply human intelligence and one's acquired skill to fix graceless 
decisions -- IOW, to turn a machine-made book into a human creation. In 
addition, I find that an disproportionate percentage of the satisfaction I 
get from this work comes from that intervention.

Just my thoughts...

Tom Neuburger

The Masters Series: FrameMaker 6
ISBN 1-930597-01-0
20% discount at http://www.bn.com



Maureen Lyall wrote:

>Hi Framers,
>
>Just a quick question...probably an easy one for you veterans! Some
>preliminary research I've conducted leads me to the conclusion that if I
>have a long row in a table (more than one page in length) Frame will not
>allow it to break across pages. Does anyone out there have a definitive
>answer for that? The documents I'm working with often times have a large
>row. If I have to manually break those I will, but I believe that will
>create a problem in the future due to page roll. Any feedback would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Maureen


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