ArborX

tftie

Longname: t f rame tie   Open the Documentation Legend
Released: 6.52a 
Created: 6.52a 
See also: trefanc tfanchor tffit

Summary
 The frame ties feature enables frames to automatically move around a page following a moving reference point on the parent frame, complimentary to 'Anchored frames' used to move frames between pages, (see tfanchor). Primarily designed with figure caption arrangements in mind.
Example (n/a)
 No example is available for this feature.

Syntax (6.52a)
tftie  target id:s?  update real:o? (   match rot:o? (   add rot:f?  match width:uh? (   match height:uv? (   this across:uh? (   this down:uv? (   target across:uh? (   target down:uv?  )  )  )  )  )  )  )
target id:s

This string identifies the target area and can take one of the following forms:

Empty  No frame tying takes place. All other parameters can be set for later use but will not take effect until this is specified.
Num  Specifies an absolute frame number on the same page. A frames number usually appears at its top-left corner on-screen (normally used with tfsel (n/a)). However, when multiple pages or views are displayed, each page counts its frames from 1 for the purpose of Frame ties, even though the on-screen numbers are consecutive throughout all displayed pages.
Relative Num  A number preceded by + or - is treated as an offset from the current frame. -1 is the previous frame, +1 is the next frame.
Name  Identifies a frame by name, (set with the tfname macro). First, earlier frames on the page are searched starting with the previous one, then later frames on the same page, starting with the next. The first frame to match the name, (which can be a wildcard, will be the target frame. If no frame matches then no tying will occur.
?p  This special two-character sequence is used to specify that the whole of the page containing the frame is to be the target area.
update real:o

Indicates whether to update the real position, size and rotation of the frame after tying. This per-frame setting is shared with 'Frame Copy Fit'.
match rot:o

Specifies whether to update the frame's rotation to the target area's rotation.
add rot:f

The number of degrees to add to the frame's rotation after matching it to the target area. Note this setting has no effect if match rot is zero.
match width:uh

Adjusts the frame width. A value of 0 will indicate no change or a percentage of width to refer to the target area's size, e.g. 0.5w or 25%w. Constant unit measurements can also be used to force the width to a certain size. Constants can also be added to the width to provide another alternative of relative size, e.g. 10mm+w.
match height:uv

As above, but to adjust the frame's height, e.g. 0.5h
this across:uh

Specifies the across component of the alignment reference point on the frame being tied.
this down:uv

As above, for down.
target across:uh

Specifies the across component of the alignment reference point on the frame being tied.
target down:uv

As above, for down.

Document created on 08-Feb-2003 (revision 1)