Reference Frames: Beside Pgf?

[ShoshF]

Paragraph Designer only has reference frame placement options for Above or Below the paragraph. I wish there was an option for "Frame Beside Pgf."

Has anyone found a solution to mimic this function (with only one or two clicks)?

[Arnis Gubins]

You can accomplish this by using paratags together (i.e. the Next Pgf Tag). Set the first paratag to have the Reference Frame set to be Below and set the Next Pgf Tag to be the one you want your text in. Set the Space Below for this paratag to be negative value of the Reference Frame height plus the Line Spacing. For the "linked" paratag, set the Space Above to be the same negative value as for the previous one's Space Below. Also set the Left indents to be a least the width of the Reference Frame.

Now to use this just insert the paratag with reference frame, hit entr and your good to go to start entering your content beside the reference frame graphic.

You may have to play around with the Space Below/Above values until you get the correct positioning of your reference frame graphic with respect to the content that you want to enter.

The negative values in the Space Below/Above serve to "pull" up the pargragraph below the reference graphic to ride up over the top of it, much the same way as you set the anchor and table positions for the top of page setting to prevent gaps.

[Bob_Niland]

If what Arnis suggested doesn't solve the problem, other alternatives, at the expense of more clicks, include:

• Anchored Frames Run-Into Paragraph, with or without Across-all-Columns hacks
• Side Head content, for example a para format with Ref Frame
• custom Master Page(s) with side-set text frame using Running H/F # <$marker1 or 2> where $marker# pulls text from body page content, possibly invisible there

If there were only one way to do it, it wouldn't be FrameMaker.