Good reminder, Fred!. There's something warm and fuzzy when a long-dormant FM feature gets recognized for its current usefulness.
Thanks. My point in suggesting the non-main-content area was intended to make the non-printing memory-jogging material always visible to authors, but not in deliverables, without any manual effort to display or conceal it. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Fred Ridder <docu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Unless something has changed in recent versions of FrameMaker, there is no > need to restrict yourself to "non-main-content areas" on master pages. The > main text frames on the master pages are only *placeholder* frames. You can > fill them up with notes and instructions and whatever else you want to put > in there, and none of it will ever appear in the deliverable document. And > since you can add more master pages beyond what you actually need for your > document design, there's a relatively unlimited amount of space available. > > I used this trick extensively when I was working with a group of more than > 25 writers at a previous employer (back in the FM6 days) when we were > migrating a hundred or so documents from Word to FrameMaker. I haven't had > need to use this trick in about a decade, but I can't imagine that Adobe > would have changed the basic document model so completely that it no longer > works. > > -FR > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
