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April 3, 2013
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Controlling text flow in a book

  • April 3, 2013
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Hi,

I am a noob to FM, and I am chasing a quick answer to what may seem like a simple problem. I'm hoping someone here can help.

We are currently using FM to create various documents for assembly in to books. Some of these documents may be as short as a paragraph or two, others may be many pages.

What I would like to know is, is it possible to make all of these various documents part of the same text flow when they are combined in to a book?

What I am trying to avoid is having excessive whitespace on pages where there is only a little information. I would prefer to control the flow so that it just continues on from the previous document in these situations.

I am using FM11 on Windows7.

Thanks for any help, or clarification if this is not possible.

Pete!

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2013

    As one relative noob to another, I’d highly recommend you get the new FM11 “bible” – Unstructured FM11 by Matt Sullivan & Sarah O’Keefe

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2013

    @Jeff, thx for the plug!!

    I'll be presenting a 1-hour Adobe webinar at 9 Pacific today on recent FM features and workflow, for anyone who's interested...the registration link is

    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&type=eseminar and I'll post a link to recording soon after the webinar.

    -Matt

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 3, 2013

    > ... is it possible to make all of these various documents part of the same text flow when they are combined in to a book?

    Text insets can do that, with some limitations (Xrefs, primarily).

    Participant
    April 3, 2013

    Thanks for that. I'll do some research on using text insets then.

    Legend
    April 4, 2013

    Have a good scour round the forum for tips on belabouring FM until it does not introduce quirky line spacing around insets ;-} and be ready to iterate.