(FM suggestion) Re: Mixing column formats

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

"Front Runner" is right, but only for TEXT FRAMES.  I don't think that Text
Frames meet the need/intent of Bernard, and certainly are not what I need.

I have beaten this drum to death.  

In FrameMaker there is NO true way to do what Word or WordPerfect can do so
easily.

There really, really, really needs to be the ability to switch from one column
style to another, based on the tagging of the content.  These column
"sections" (per Word) need to be able to be anchored and flow along with other
book content, to flow over page breaks, to fill & balance, etc.  

Before somebody says "use tables", remember that a table can flow IN a
columnar structure, but the content IN a table cannot do a serpentine flow IN
a table.

This issue has come up a number of times in the Frame groups over the last 18
months and there has (eventually) been complete agreement that Frame cannot do
it.

-- 
Jay Smith

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Front Runner wrote:
> 
> You can create different column layouts by choosing Format > Customize
> Layout > Customize Text Frame. This allows you to create a custom number of
> columns for any frame.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Bernard Aschwanden
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> >In Frame we can have one column format, or 2-column format or any number
> >of columns.  BUT can we have different column formats in the same
> >document.
>

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