Writer Guide

Style Comments and Use
Marginalia A style for placing a frame beside the left margin. As the
name suggests, the Marginalia style is intended for
comments added in the margin of text. The style also is
useful for creating sideheads—headings against the left
margin, which often are used in technical documentation.
To set up sideheads, create body-text paragraph styles with
two inches or more indentation from the left. Then, place
the cursor at the start of a body-text paragraph, add the
frame, and apply the Marginalia style.
OLE The default style for OLE objects and floating frames. The
default places the frame at the top and center of a body of
text.
Watermark The default style for a watermark, a graphic placed as the
background to a body of text. The default is a Through
wrap, with text passing over the frame and anything in it.
The graphic should be faint enough that text still is
readable over top of it.
Creating new frame styles
You can access frame settings by selecting New or Modify in the
Styles and Formatting window for a frame style.
Frame settings are available from the following tabbed pages:
• Type page: sets the size and position of the frame. One of the
most useful options here is AutoSize, which automatically adjusts
the frame to the object it contains. If the frame style is one used
automatically, then this option should be selected.
• Options page: sets whether the contents of the frame are printed
and able to be edited in a read-only document. The tab also sets
the text direction, which is useful if you are using the frame for
contents in a language that uses right-to-left text direction.
• Wrap page: sets how text is positioned in relation to the frame
and how close text comes to a frame. If you want the frame
contents to stand out from the paragraphs around it, set the wrap
to None. This probably is the single most important tab for
frames.
• Background page: sets the background color or graphic. This tab
is useful mostly for text frames in complex page layouts, in which
a text frame has an appearance different from the general
background of the page.
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