5.5.3 Converting sidehead formats
If your document uses FrameMaker sideheads, you
have some choices to make, because Word does not support sideheads as
such. Mif2Go offers four options:
[WordOptions]
; Sideheads = Left (simplest), Indent, Frame (most
accurate),
; or Normal
Options for Sideheads
have the following effects:
Left
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Sets the sideheads flush left in the main text
column, which is widened to the full page width (less margins).
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Indent
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Uses left and right indents to create a sidehead-column
effect. The sideheads are all right-indented, and the body is left-indented.
Heads that span both columns continue to do so. The sideheads are aligned
with their bottoms, instead of their tops, even with the top of their
related text.
|
Frame
|
(Not available for WinHelp)
Does an excellent emulation of FrameMaker sideheads most of the time,
provided the sideheads are always on the left;
do not even try it if you have sideheads set to "Inside" or "Outside".
This option works by placing all sideheads in text-relative Word frames,
and narrowing the text column to duplicate the FrameMaker layout. Mif2Go undertakes some serious reformatting
to achieve this effect. For example, the Space Above for both the sidehead
and its text paragraph must be set to 0; otherwise they will not align
correctly if they happen to fall at the top of a page. Mif2Go changes the Space Below of the previous
paragraph to compensate. The spanning heads are also in frames, anchored
to a dummy paragraph in the text column so that they do not conflict
with any following sideheads.
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Normal
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Uses whatever the paragraph format specifies,
which is usually the wrong thing to do.
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Fine-tune sideheads
You can specify additional fine-tuning options
to position sideheads in the output document. If you specify a value
other than No for ForceSideHeadPos,
that value applies if you have also specified Indent
or Frame for Sideheads:
[WordOptions]
; ForceSideHeadPos = No (default), Left, Right,
Inner, or Outer
ForceSideHeadPos=No
Span all columns
If your document uses a FrameMaker paragraph format
that spans all columns including sideheads, Mif2Go inserts an anchor paragraph, so the
text box containing the spanning paragraph does not become entwined with
the text box containing a directly following sidehead. If there is always
body text in between, Mif2Go anchors the text box for the spanner
to the body paragraph. (Word does not handle correctly two text boxes
anchored to the same place):
[WordOptions]
; SHSpannerAnchors = Yes (default,
; anchor paras after framed spanners)
SHSpannerAnchors=Yes
Align sideheads
You can attempt to improve the way sidehead text
boxes align to body paragraphs:
[WordOptions]
; SHVertAdjust = twips to move sidehead framed text
down (neg for up)
SHVertAdjust=0
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