Without addressing the specific questions you have asked, I'd like to suggest 
that you document any out-of-the-ordinary setups or practices in the master 
pages. It's a little-known fact that you can put text into the dummy body frame 
on a master page, and that this text will be saved there but will never appear 
in your deliverable documents. If you store text this way on custom master 
pages, it *will* be subject to deletion if you delete the entire master page, 
but using the default left and right master pages makes the notes relatively 
immune to accidental deletion. The only downside is that everyone using the 
template will need to know to look on the master pages to find this kind of 
helpful information.


-FR

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail....@lists.frameusers.com> on 
behalf of Monique Semp <monique.s...@earthlink.net>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 12:01 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] heading text in "Running H/F #" - clever truncation ?

Hello, Framers,

For an FAQ doc, I've broken the usual "rule" of sensible-length headings 
because I'm making them be the full text of a question. So with the font size, 
the headings are often 3- or 4-lines.

The problem is that I have my master pages configured to include the heading 
text in the recto footers, via the "Running H/F #" variable. And with these 
very long headings, the text overruns the available space in the footer, pushes 
the footer "artwork" (just a nice pipe line between the heading text and the 
page number) to the wrong spot, and completely obliterates the page number.

So, what sorts of schemes/work-arounds have people created to deal with this 
sort of issue?

(I can imagine creating a new heading style for the long-winded headings, 
creating a new hidden-text heading style for the truncated text that I'd wish 
in the footer, and then adding the style for the truncated heading to the 
"Running H/F #" definition, which already has multiple styles to account for, 
for example, "heading 1" and "heading 1 page". But this is certainly a hassle, 
and won't be at all obvious to some other writer, or my future self.)

Thanks for suggestions,
-Monique

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