Feature Request: Text Flow Splicing

[John Hind]

Hi,

The new templates feature is much appreciated, but some more features are needed to make it truly useful. I'll post these separately for easy tracking:

2. Automatic text flow splicing on insertion of new page with master. For documents like books and letters it is necessary to add pages as the amount of text increases. A master can be used to set the format of extension pages and masters can be put in a template. However when a new page is spliced in, the text flow is not automatically spliced. To make this work it would be necessary to define 'input ports' and 'output ports' on the page templates which would link to the Text Frames on the template page. The input ports and output ports could then be automatically spliced when a new page was inserted either at the end or in the middle of an existing sequence. With this infrastructure it would also be possible to have a mode similar to a word processor where the document automatically extended by adding new pages when the text overflows.

More to follow.

[Move Along People]

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[John Hind]

Yea, like that's going to happen! I want the template designer to be able to configure it so it just happens for the document author, however they decide to add pages including letting them just type as they would in a word processor.

Generally I'm looking here at a designer/author model were a brand designer makes templates to control the branding and product marketeers add content to templates to make specific product documentation.