Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 - Creating and formatting tables

ADOBE FRAMEMAKER 10
MIF Reference
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To locally define a character format, use a complete Font statement:
<Para
<PgfTag `Body'>
<ParaLine
<String `You can also format characters by '>
<Font
<FTag `Emphasis'>
…character property statements …
> # end of Font
<String `applying'>
<Font
<FTag `'>
> # end of Font
<String ` a locally defined character format.'>
> # end of ParaLine
> # end of Para
Like paragraph formats, character formats inherit properties from previously defined character formats. Unlike
paragraph formats, however, a character format ends at the close of a
Para statement.
See the sample file
charfmt.mif for examples of using character formats.
Creating and formatting tables
You can create tables in FrameMaker documents, edit them, and apply table formats to them. Tables can have
heading rows, body rows, and footing rows. Each row consists of table cells that contain the actual contents of the
table.
Tables are like paragraphs in that they have a format. A table format controls the appearance of a table, including the
number and width of columns, the types of ruling or shading in rows and columns, and the table’s position in a text
column. Table formats can be named, stored in a Table Catalog, and applied to many tables. A table format can also
be defined locally.
In a FrameMaker document, tables appear where they have been placed in the text flow. A table behaves like an
anchored frame, so a table flows with the surrounding text unless you give it a specific location. In a MIF file, the
document’s tables are collected in one place and a placeholder for each table indicates the table’s position in the text
flow.
You create a table in a MIF file as follows:
• Specify the contents of the table by using a Tbl statement. An individual table is called a table instance. All table
instances are stored in one
Tbls statement. Assign each table instance a unique ID number.
Body rows
Footing row
Table 1: Coffee Inventory
Coffee Bags Status Price per bag
Brazil Santos 50 Prompt $455.00
Celebes Kalossi 29 In Stock $924.00
Colombian 25 In Stock $474.35
$1,853.35
Heading row
Title