RE: Wanted: Any available doc comparing Word XP and FrameMaker 7.2

["Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>]

> Sideheads: Here are Geoff Lane's instructions:
> 1. Create your document with a wide left margin.
> 2. Create a style (Sidehead) with:
>  - the typographical specs you need
>  - a suitable negative left indent
>  - a tab stop that corresponds with the actual left margin.
> 3. Format your sidehead with the sidehead style.
> 4. If the sidehead is shorter than margin, add a tab to the sidehead,
> otherwise add a space or tab (experiment with different whitespace to
> get the effect you want).
> 5. Hide the paragraph mark at the end of the sidehead. To do this, click
> the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar (the one that looks like a
> paragraph mark), select the paragraph mark, then press Ctrl+Shift+H to
> toggle the hidden text attribute on. When you hide non-printing
> characters, the sidehead is on the same line as the running text.

I would do this differently

1. Create your document with a wide left margin.
2. Create a style (Sidehead) with:
   - the typographical specs you need
   - a Frame defining the left and right margins of the sidehead
3. Format your sidehead with the sidehead style. If the text of the sidehead
is too long to fit on one line, it will wrap within the frame

No need to hide the closing paragraph mark, and the layout is the same
irrespective of whether or not you are displaying hidden text.

Regards
Jonathan West

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