When you call this function, it will have no effect on piping at
first; it will simply place a [>] marker symbol near the top left
corner of the frame. The next time you add or delete a page, this
marker will automatically create a piping link between this frame and
the frame on the previous page with the opposite (corresponding)
marker, that is Piping to ...
(see below).
This also makes it clear that only one frame on each page can be marked this way. To place the marker, select the desired frame, then click on the function icon. The active frame will then be marked as the one into which the text from the previous page should flow. To eliminate the marker, select the frame and then click on the same icon once more.
To prevent misunderstandings: No text piping connection will be
created, nor will one be dissolved. Text piping connections are
identified exclusively by an arrow in the corner of the frame. The [>]
marker only ensures that text piping flow connections are formed or
dissolved when pages are inserted or removed. A concrete example is
once again a book that is to be set with Calamus: Create a new page
with a text frame positioned where you want it; select the frame, and
assign to it the marker for text flow from the previous to the next
page. Now, add as many pages as you think you'll need; activate the
Copy layout
checkbox in the Insert empty pages
dialog
box of the Page module. All the pages will be linked automatically
into a piping chain, because the frame carries the relevant markings.
If you now import text, you will see that it pipes automatically from
page to page. The same thing can work for pages which contain more
than one text frame – for example three column layouts for
magazines or newspapers. These three frames should have text piping
linked manually. The first frame is given the marker for flow from the
previous page, the third frame will be marked as the one from which
text should be piped to the following page (see below). But here too
the real linking between the pages will only be created when copying
the layout.
