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Split tab

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The Split sub-tab on the Extra tab of the preferences dialog box on the Pages main tab in Fred4 contains additional split preferences. All the preferences are personal (per-user) setting.

Preference	Description
Head/body gap	Enter a gap value, e.g. 8pt for the Head and Body tool.
Hor. Ver.	Enter the default horizontal and vertical gap between objects, applied when you Make default gap.
Runaround (T/B)	Enter the default top/bottom text wrap margin, or auto to use the default when adding images or pull quotes to an article layout.
Preferred Head Sizes	Enter values as explained in Preferred headline heights.
Subhead size	Enter a non-zero value to enable subhead with Head and Body tool.
Pull Quote Rules, Top, Bottom	Enter the weight for pull quote rules or 0 to hide it.
Lock to grid	Tick to enable.
Add rules when splitting	Tick, to add vertical rules between column frames when splitting.
Always prompt when splitting Prompt_also for body size	Tick, to let Fred4 to display the dialog box on each splitting.
Apply runaround on all, head only, Apply dyn runaround	Tick, to apply the runaround on all objects when splitting, concomitantly to Apply Dyn Runaround
Size Frame on Format Change	Tick, to automatically adjust the frame height to the existing content and to the new format, for all non-body frames.
Keep the total height when scaling head	If ticked, Fred4 will keep the total height of the article layout when resizing a headline vertically by dragging or automatically.
Bounce	Tick, to bounce when using Head and Body tool.
Add/remove columns on SHIFT+arrow, Left side or Right side	This function is obsolete in version 2.0 or newer.
Treat subhead as intro when adding	Tick, to be able to select body columns, and ad a subhead in overlap and runaround.
Allow SHIFT for ext(ended) actions, Allow CTRL...	Tick, to enable the smart resizing of headlines or images with captions. Tick, to enable smart resizing of the body columns.