Inspiring

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Automatic Justification of FrameMaker Index

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April 14, 2022
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In my Indexes, I have found that the page automatically justifies the index text entries. Is there a setting or method where justification is not automatic, so that I can get more text on the pages?

Thanks in advance.

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

I teach indexing once a month to my advanced students. It's a brand new book, and a brand new index, and I can tell you that we always need to change the justification to align left. The index styles default to justify.

This would be an excellent feature request, as would adding a tab between <$paratext> and <$pagenum> on the TOC reference pages. It's only been 30 years of manually changing these two things. LOL

Now, you could modify the Level1IX , etc definition(s) either on the reference pages or on the body pages. It doesn't matter. They both control the same content.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

In my experience, FrameMaker does default to Justified for Level1IX, Level2IX, etc. While you are editing those styles, consider removing the hyphenation and increasing the widow/orphan lines to keep index entries from breaking across columns.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor

Inspiring

Hmmm Not sure why the Justified was set, because I didn't set it. Perhaps the Reference pages already had the setting, because I didn't create or edit them myself. Hyphenation is already removed, but I will increase window/orphan for the breaks.

Thanks Barb!

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

In the IX.fm file, what are the Alignment properties for the various Paragraph formats used?
In the most recent book I did, it appears that FM might have defaulted to:
GroupTitlesIX: Center
Level1IX: left
Level2IX: left
… no Justified in sight.

Settings on Reference Page IX could also be doing things that might look justified, via Tab Stops.

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defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor

Inspiring

Ok, found out that FrameMaker apparently set the default in the Basic tab of the Paragraph Designer to Justified for the Index, because I never recall setting it to Justified. I will see if there is something in the Reference pages that gives me a clue.

Thanks!

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

I'm not visualizing what you're saying is happening - can you post a screenshot of what you think the issue is? Use the picture icon to include an image inline (don't use attachments - makes it harder for people to see what you're talking about)

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defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor

Inspiring

Unfortunately, I choose not to display it at this time because I have manually wrapped all of the index text lines to where I want them for a PDF output. Let me check to see if I have another book. Bottom line is that the text is justifying entirely across the column., instead of having equal spacing between words...big gaps between letters. Let me see if I can find another one.

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defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor

Inspiring

Ok, Jeff, I found out that FrameMaker apparently set the default in the Basic tab of the Paragraph Designer to Justified for the Index, because I never recall setting it to Justified myself. I will see if there is something in the Reference pages that gives me a clue.

Thanks!

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