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January 25, 2012
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Printing down the margin outside of the flowtext area...

  • January 25, 2012
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I am working with Arbortext PE 5.4 100, using FOSI. I am wondering if anyone has tried to place text in the page margin outside of the defined flowtext area (one column layout). If so, is it possible to do text rotated from the rest of the flowtext?

I am just throwing some questions out there, this isn't a hard and fast requirement, but one possible approach to an issue I need to address. I hear it's possible to do this sort of thing in APP, but I'm trying not to head down that road yet if I don't have to...

Thanks,

-Jason A. Buss

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    naglists1-Visitor
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    January 25, 2012
    Like bleedtabs? Region should work.

    On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Buss, Jason A
    <jabuss@cessna.textron.com>wrote:

    > I am working with Arbortext PE 5.4 100, using FOSI. I am wondering if
    > anyone has tried to place text in the page margin outside of the defined
    > flowtext area (one column layout). If so, is it possible to do text
    > rotated from the rest of the flowtext?****
    >
    > ** **
    >
    > I am just throwing some questions out there, this isn’t a hard and fast
    > requirement, but one possible approach to an issue I need to address. I
    > hear it’s possible to do this sort of thing in APP, but I’m trying not to
    > head down that road yet if I don’t have to…****
    >
    > ** **
    >
    > Thanks,****
    >
    > ** **
    >
    > -Jason A. Buss****
    >
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 25, 2012
    Hi Jaspn,

    What you need is a FOSI region. Go to


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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 25, 2012
    Jason,

    I've attached an example of a rotated side title that is in the current draft of my book.

    Hope this helps!
    Suzanne


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    Anonymous
    January 25, 2012
    That helps big time, thanks all!!

    -Jason
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 25, 2012
    One thing about regions: a region doesn't appear unless it is outputting something. Code usetext source=" " in the region, if necessary.
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    ptc-19080751-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    January 30, 2012
    BTW: You can use a region with a backclr as a vertical line down the middle of a page or to box a page. For example, the following code draws a box with 1pt rules at the one-inch margins ofan 8-1/2x11page:

    <region xoff="1in" yoff="1in" width="6.5in" height="1pt" bckclr="#000000">
    <usetext source="\" \&quot;="></usetext>
    </region>
    <region xoff="1in" yoff="1in" width="1pt" height="9in" bckclr="#000000">

    <usetext source="\" \&quot;="></usetext>
    </region>
    <region xoff="7in" yoff="1in" width="1pt" height="9in" bckclr="#000000">
    <usetext source="\" \&quot;="></usetext>
    </region>
    <region xoff="1in" yoff="10in" width="6.5in" height="1pt" bckclr="#000000">
    <usetext source="\" \&quot;="></usetext>
    </region>

    Suzanne


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