Re: indent right margin on first line

[David Crowe <David.Crowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill;

Take a bow. It's a very clever solution. One of these days I hope to 
totally wrap my head around it.

Now, if this was Word, the little man in the corner would do it for 
you ... and then Word would crash :)

- David Crowe


At 12:43 PM -0400 2/4/05, Bill Briggs wrote:
> At 8:58 AM -0700 2/4/05, David Crowe wrote:
> > Bill Briggs gave me an awesome solution to this problem. I've cc'd 
> > him in the hopes that he will share it again.
>
>  Dave, you're makin' me blush. But I'd be lying if I didn't say that 
> one of the things I truly love about FrameMaker is getting her to do 
> some kind of tricky thing that the designers never contemplated. 
> There used to be a guy on the Framers list a long time ago, in the 
> days of Phong Co. Wim something or other was his name, I think, and 
> he was always coming up with some clever way to do the unimaginable 
> with FrameMaker. I got inspired by many of his crafty solutions. 
> Don't know if he's still on the list or not.
>
> > I used it on my TOC's and the problem has virtually gone away. A 
> > few paragraphs still need soft returns inserted, but for most of 
> > them the page number, with leader, ends up on the right margin even 
> > when the paragraph text in the TOC is split over multiple lines.
> >
> > I'd try to explain it, but I don't fully understand it. I just know 
> > that it works.
> >
> > It does require some work on the reference pages to insert tabs, 
> > but that only needs to be done once.
>
>  Actually, you're lucky. After David sent me the question, I 
> bothered to "write it up". I've got a Frame document that explains 
> it, and a couple of screen shots (tiffs) that show the body page, 
> the reference page, and the para designer, so you can see what the 
> elements are that make this work. I'll send Lisa the files and she 
> can give it a whirl.
>
>  - web


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