Table Continuation variable space

Question

Hello, looking for a little advice! I understand this is probably a limitation of framemaker but hoping maybe someone else has dealt with something like this or has an idea that I am not thinking of.

Per the customer’s format:

Table titles end with a period and when a table rolls to another page the period appears at the end of Continued. The inserted variable is showing as a character space which isn’t what we want. Is there another way to close this space (see red arrow below)?

(And this isn’t something that we can suggest to the customer to change their style and location of the period or to nix it all together, as we are not in control of the publication just providing supplements to their existing manual. I don’t think they are using FrameMaker to author in either. Currently were are splitting the table and handling the formatting manually.)

Thank you all!

frameexpert · Accepted Answer

This is a basic limitation of FrameMaker; it puts a non-breaking space on the first page of the Table Continuation variable. I have tried to figure out a workaround over the years, but still haven't been able to.

yatani · Answer

There is one way I came up with.

Create three types of character formats.
chafmt1, character spacing: -70%
chafmt2, color: white, character spacing: -12%, character width 200%
chafmt3, default

Edit the Table Continuation variable as follows.
<chafmt1> <chafmt2>.<default>- Continued.
*There is a space between <chafmt1> and <chafmt2>.

Insert "Table Continuation" variable at the end of table title
Example: Title of the Table.[Table Continuation]

The idea is to just put a white period on top of the previous one to make it look like it's disappearing.
Hopefully it should look like the screenshot.

When converting to HTML etc., unnecessary periods will appear, so please be careful in the final output.

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