Specifying Page Layout - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 User Manual

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Creating default paragraph formats for new tables
You can use the
TblFormat
tables. These default formats do not affect tables that are defined within the MIF file; they only affect tables that the
user inserts after the MIF file has been opened in FrameMaker. Your filter or application should provide these
defaults only for documents that might be edited later.
For example, the following MIF code assigns a paragraph format named Description to body cells in new tables that
are given the format called Coffee Table:
<TblFormat
<TblTag `Coffee Table'>
<TblColumn
<TblColumnNum 0>
<TblColumnWidth
<TblColumnBody
<PgfTag `Description'>
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Tables inherit properties differently
Tables inherit formatting properties somewhat differently than other document components. A table without an
applied table format does not inherit one from a previously defined table. Instead, it gets a set of default properties
from the MIF interpreter. Thus, if you apply a named format to a table, a following table will not inherit that format.
Paragraphs in table cells still inherit properties from previously defined paragraph formats. If you give a table cell a
certain paragraph style, all subsequent cells inherit the same property unless it is explicitly reset. Table cells can
inherit paragraph properties from any previously specified paragraph format, including other tables, paragraphs, or
even the Paragraph Format catalog.
Tips
To avoid problems when creating tables:
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Give each table a unique ID number.
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Make sure that each
Tbl
has a corresponding statement.
Tbl
• Make sure that each
ATbl

Specifying page layout

FrameMaker documents have two kinds of pages that determine the position and appearance of text in the
document: body pages and master pages.
# end of TblFormat
# end of Tbl
# end of Tbls
and statements to define default paragraph formats for the columns in new
TblColumn
1.0">
# end of TblColumnBody
# end of TblColumn
# end of TblFormat
statement has only one corresponding
statement matches the ID of its corresponding table instance.
statement, and that each
ATbl
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statement
ATbl