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Nov 10, 2021 8:15 PM UTC
Question

Placement of DITA Hazardsymbol

When I add a hazardsymbol element to a hazardstatement in Framemaker, this is the result (symbol below):

However, I want it to look like this, but I'd rather not use a table to achieve this formatting:

Our template does not have side heads, which I think would make this easier.

Does anyone have a suggestion how this can be handled or should I just use tables and forget about using the hazardsymbol element?

 

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    Community Expert
    Nov 11, 2021 7:32 AM UTC

    Hi,

    Generally anchored frames should be in their own paragraphs. When you place this paragraph before your other warning paragraphs, you could move the icon to the top left.

    A few years ago I tried to get the warning layout, which you show in your table, with indentation and space before/after settings. It worked, but not very well.

    It could be that this works better now. You might experiment with run-in pagination for the icon paragraph.

    Generally I find the table much more stable.

    Best regards

    Winfried

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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    Community Expert
    Nov 10, 2021 8:43 PM UTC

    I would build the top section--symbol and red bar--in one large parent frame. Then just set the type styles to have a first/left indent. (The frame above would be attached to the bold U/C head.)

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    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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    Nov 11, 2021 10:20 PM UTC

    Here is an example:

     

    Here is the file:

    https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/f7c7d5e7-e3c4-45e9-49bc-ce6641da2b00

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