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- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!wolff
- From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
- Subject: Re: Boxed text in Framemaker?
- Message-ID: <ZSG0OGF@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <ByyE96.DC9@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Dec9.153957.5563@informix.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:22:00 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
-
- >In article <ByyE96.DC9@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> dwbraam@crg4.uwaterloo.ca (Doug
- >Braam) writes:
- >> Hi everyone,
- >>
- >> A friend of mine is wondering if it's possible to create boxed text in the
- >> middle of a sentence using Framemaker. He wants to create something like:
- >>
- >> "The Return key is a nifty little piece of plastic..."
- >>
- >> where there's a box around the word 'Return' to indicate that it's a key on
- >> the keyboard.
-
- >Insert an anchored frame in the word Return, choosing Left Side of Column or Right
- >Side of Column for Anchoring Position. It's important to choose a correct anchoring
- >position.
-
- >Select the anchored frame, and using the graphics tools, set its fill to None and
- >its pen to black.
-
- >Slide the anchored frame over the word Return, and resize it as desired. If you
- >want a fancier box, create whatever you want inside the anchored frame, and set the
- >pen of the anchored frame to None.
-
- This is one of the many little tricks that are unfortunately needed to
- achieve simple effects with FrameMaker. Like most of them, this one does not
- work well since the box will stay at its place if you edit the text and the
- boxed word moves. This shows that FrameMaker is actually missing a lot of
- simple features for everydays text layout purposes (like, e.g., character
- stacking).
-