[duxuser] Re: Still, more puzzled!

  • From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:14:48 +0100

Hi Fina,

Bit of a head banger this one when I didn't have the original text file, but 
here goes.

I have to suggest that your use of the H3. code for what effectively is body 
text is perhaps wrong.  Let me attempt to explain.

Putting it in very simple terms, Heading Styles, be it in Word or DBT, are 
designed in such a way that what follows the Heading, stays with the Heading, 
if you get my drift.  The idea being that you do not want a heading of any kind 
at the foot of a page all on its own.

Duxbury's h3. code is effectively set up to keep at least two lines "attached" 
to the previous heading.  Your document contains consecutive h3. Styles, and so 
DBT tries to keep the next two lines together with the previously used h3. 
line.  Consequently you have created a kind of "loop", especially where these 
are short paragraphs anyway.  It's just pure bad luck that a number of these 
paragraphs being forced to be kept with the previous ones, kicked things onto a 
new page.

I'd suggest that you dispense with the h3. style for body text, and simply 
begin with a [ind5] code. (Position on a new line at cell 5)

I appreciate this is a tricky one, so please come back to me if it's not clear.

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fina [mailto:fina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 13:58
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Still, more puzzled!
> 
> 
> Good Morning George and Listers,
> 
> Well, here i am! still more puzzled than ever!
> 
> Ann Foxworth and I have been working closely with this 
> particular file and 
> she too, will be puzzled when she sees it.  We decided that 
> the style I 
> wanted to use to get the effect i wanted with the menu item 
> descriptions 
> was h3 in the styles list.
> 
> This style works beautifully for what I want to do.  However, 
> there's a 
> certain area in the file where duxbury is putting in page 
> breaks where 
> there are definitely no page breaks.  It's just in this one 
> area.  I've 
> revealed codes and see no page breaks other than the ones 
> I've specifically 
> told it to do.  I've sent the file to Steve Dresser but was wondering 
> Gorge, if i may send it to you for you to look at.
> 
> An example of what it's doing is this:  The category is 
> called "About Our 
> Sauces"  I have of course, centered this heading.  Right 
> below it, there 
> are several different sauces and their descriptions. This 
> category starts 
> in the middle of page 12.  The title, according to duxbury, 
> is on page 12, 
> line 16.  However, when I invoke the  h3 style, duxbury puts 
> a double blank 
> line and then starts the item and it's description; this item and its 
> description automatically go to page 13.  I've done 
> everything i know to do 
> to try to correct this and duxbury will not let me do it!
> 
> Thanks for reading.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Fina Currey
> fina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx    
> 
> 
> * * *
> * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org.
> * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with
> *   unsubscribe
> * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also
> * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription
> * options by visiting //www.freelists.org.  The list archive
> * is also located there.
> * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com
> * * *
> 
* * *
* This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org.
* To unsubscribe, send a blank message with
*   unsubscribe
* as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also
* subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription
* options by visiting //www.freelists.org.  The list archive
* is also located there.
* Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com
* * *

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. duxuser
  3. Archive
  4. 10-2002