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Stay in Style |
Single sourcing requires, above all, consistency and precision in the use of named styles. FrameMaker is particularly well suited to this because of the ease with which you can make style templates for your documents, and redefine style properties for an entire book in a single operation. To make it all work, you must use your templates as they are designed to be used, without adding new styles at random, and especially without using style overrides. Sometimes you may feel you must use overrides because without them, a page break or line break falls in a bad place. Don’t do it. Treat the problem as a symptom, and make any change that is needed on a book-wide level, as a template style change. For example, you may need to increase the Widow/Orphan line count under Pagination in the Paragraph Designer, or change the hyphenation rules in the Advanced tab, or the line break characters under Document Text Options. If you look for the basic problem first, and solve it, you will find very few cases where you really need a local override. This applies to bolding, italicizing, and sub/superscripting in the text, too. Always use a character format that is descriptive of the reason for the change, such as Emphasis, Author, Trademark, or Reference. Don’t name the format after the property itself, like Bold or Italic. This method will give you the ability to choose the most appropriate treatment for the text in each different document type you are creating... and for the types you don’t know you need yet. | ||||
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