Writing and formatting content
Contents
Users write the articles content in i4 or Ted in their private folders.
Where needed, users attach to the articles one or more images with the appropriate ratio. See Attaching images to content.
About article text lengths
While writing, users respect roughly the recommended length of article elements e.g. headline, body and captions.
The text length recommendations and images number and ratio refer to the library shapes, available for the auto-pagination.
Example: a default shape of the MKQ library, destinated to the quarter editorial pages, accommodates about 35 characters in a headline, 1906 characters in the body, 123 characters in the caption, and one image with ratio of 1.2. Therefore, if you write an article with 30-40 characters in the headline, 1800-2000 characters in body, 100-150 characters in caption, and one image with ratio in range of 1.1 - 1.5, it is considered to be within recommended lengths.
Note: although the auto-fitting procedures in auto-pagination cater for a wide range of text lengths, have in mind that the range is anyhow finite: if no shape provides for a body with let's say, 3000 characters, such article might not be paginated or, when paginated, might remain out of measure.
See Object library shapes reference for the complete list of shapes, their capacity and the way to read the coded names.
About article text formatting
Generally, users write unformatted text. The formatting is applied automatically in the content linking phase, and read from the library shapes.
The exception is related to the first paragraph indent and formatting, and to the byline text and formatting. Such formatting is not applied by the library shapes. Therefore, to have the output as below, users need to write the caption lines and apply appropriate formats on them, and also to apply a format on the first paragraph at writing time:
