Idea: Start of chapter with top of first line down the page

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(FM 556 on Win95)

Hi,

I am sure that this is a really obvious trick that a bizillion people already
use. However, it was new to me.

Normally you want a chapter to start new on a right page.  In my case, I also
need the chapter heading to appear a couple inches down said page.

Up to this point, we had used a first-page-in-chapter master page, but because
tags cannot be tied to master pages (i.e. cause master pages to be used where
the tag is located), it meant having each chapter in a separate file because
that way the first page could easily use the first-page-in-chapter master page
without causing any flow and master page assignment problems (as text is added
and removed).  That means having multiple files, a book, a template/master
file, etc.  A big pain.

When you set a paragraph to be at the top of a right page, FM ignores any
Space Above Paragraph setting, thus you can't push the chapter heading down.

So... very simple solution (but why did it not occur to us earlier?):  Above
the chapter heading, add a "empty" paragraph tagged "chapter-head-above" and
set IT to appear at the top of a right page and set Space Below to be what
ever space you want.  Then set "chapter-head" to appear Anywhere.  

It is so simple that I feel really stupid for not having used it before. 
Maybe telling my story (My name is Jay and I feel stupid...) will help
somebody else?

Jay

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