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Subject:Re: a framemaker issue ... or is it? From:Kathryn Whitver <kathrynw -at- MICROWARE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:24:42 GMT
John Stamps <stampsj -at- remedy -dot- com> wrote:
>Hi yall --
>* We'd like to use an icon but the advanced properties only lets you attach the
>anchored frame either above or below the line. We think it looks funky. We want
To place an icon in the left margin easily, go to the reference page
and create a reference box with the icon flush to the left margin in
the box. Then in the paragraph style, advanced screen, assign the
new icon as the top line and in the basic screen make the space above
a negative number (start with -20 and adjust from there). It's hard
to explain, but easy to do, and will be apparrent from the other
styles on the reference pages.
>* Zapf dingbats work just fine, but none of the zapf dingbats IMHO are cool
>enough or distinctive enough to merit using to distinguish our procedures. I
>thought a sideways triangle would be reasonably OK but there are no zapf
>sideways triangles!
Check your Frame clipart. They have triangles you can rotate and size
in any way you want. These can be used with the reference page
trick mentioned above.
If this makes absolutely no sense at all, let me know and I'll
email you a sample reference page that shows how we did this.
