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.
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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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