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Re: inline spacing on graphics - Word

Subject: Re: inline spacing on graphics - Word
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:09:09 -0400




Sean Hower wrote:

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Dick Margulis wrote after providing a solution:
Far better would be to move the graphic to the margin or mortise it into the edge of the text column and rephrase the text to point to it rather than require its immediate expression.
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Thanks for the tip on using the font format.

Hey, Sean, now that I'm an independent consultant, I just smile and give the customer what they want, even if they want the wrong thing altogether. The customer is always right, even when they're wrong. Right? ;-)


Here's a clear explanation of our situation mostly for a further explanation of what you have in mind with the above suggestion. These images are appearing mostly in steps where we're telling the user to click a button that has no text on it. The only way to identify it is visually.

2. Click This Unlabled Button <img>.

How would your suggestion apply to this?

There are two ways to approach this.

1. If you _only_ use these images in a one-line step such as your example, you can define your step style with sufficient space-above and space-below to accommodate the button image. This would have the effect of spacing out all your steps, whether they have inline images or not; and it would thus cost you some pages overall, unless you compensated somehow with another style modification somewhere else.

2. Alternatively--and especially if you are not restricted to one-line step instructions for these buttons--you can name the button and put it in the left margin, adjacent to the step, with a figure legend, like this:

HEADING HEADING HEADING
[white space]1. Step one text step one text step one text step one text
step one text step one text step one text step one text
step one text step one text step one text step one text
|---| 2. Click the_name_ button step two text step two text step
| | step two text step two text step two text step two text
|___| step two text step two text step two text step two text
_name_ step two text step two text step two text step two text




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Re: inline spacing on graphics - Word: From: Sean Hower

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