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New .fm file in book without page break

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May 15, 2017
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Hello experts FM,

I have a text issue. I have a book with 10 *.fm files.

I would need the text from different *.fm files to be fluent, without page breaks in between. Is that possible? Is it possible also on older versions, like 8 or 9?

Thank you for your help,

Karen

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Correct answer Bob_Niland

FM file content starts a new page.

The classic work-around is to create a second .book file (let's call it Uniflow.book), in which all the body content (excluding the covers, front matter, TOC, IX, ListsOf, etc.) are all in a single file (perhaps called Body.fm).

Body.fm imports all of its content from the individual chapter files as Text Insets.

Typical Options:
Flow to Import: (●) Body Page Flow: A
Formatting of Imported Flow:
(●) Retain Source's Formatting
Updating of Imported Flow:
(●) Automatic

You edit the chap files, and regen the Uniflow.book file.

Bob_Niland

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FM file content starts a new page.

The classic work-around is to create a second .book file (let's call it Uniflow.book), in which all the body content (excluding the covers, front matter, TOC, IX, ListsOf, etc.) are all in a single file (perhaps called Body.fm).

Body.fm imports all of its content from the individual chapter files as Text Insets.

Typical Options:
Flow to Import: (●) Body Page Flow: A
Formatting of Imported Flow:
(●) Retain Source's Formatting
Updating of Imported Flow:
(●) Automatic

You edit the chap files, and regen the Uniflow.book file.

ka_renAuthor

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Hi Bob,

thanks a lot for your reply. I have just one more question for the solution you mentioned. From my book (with structured .fm files) I can create 10 different PDFs (using attributes), with the usage of the “filtering” option (I don’t know how is officially called, because we use a plug-in that calls the apps features and it might be renamed).

Is in this case the “filtering” then done on the Body.fm?

At the beginning we were using one book and .fm files with a lot of attributes. Now we have multiple .fm files (split according to the attributes – so that we lowered the complexity within one .fm file) and multiple books.

The reason why we have split the text into multiple books is that the content was so complicated and big, that FrameMaker started crashing all the time. After the split, everything is working fine, but we have a page break in front of subtitles.

Thank you again for your help,

Karen

Bob_Niland

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re: Text Insets, Structured FM and "attributes"

I've never used Structured FM, so have no experience with TIs in that context.

I don't know what an attribute might be, and since you're using a plug-in, it might be anything.

But on the off chance that TIs are easy to do in StrucFM, and the plug-in is just messing with Conditional Text, I can report that Conditional Text in Text Insets does work (the conditional settings for the file or book containing the Text Inset do control the display of TI content).

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