How to adjust R/W rules to display images inline?

Question

Hi all,
out of the box, when I insert an image in a paragraph (DITA 1.2) then FrameMaker 12 uses the "below line" display setting. I need to display it inline, at the insertion point.
When I adjust the settings of the anchored frame then the inline setting is lost when saving the XML file. So evidently I need to adjust the R/W rules.
I tried to add a corresponding inline rule but had no success so far, does anybody know what needs to be done? It seems like a quite common requirement to display images inline.
Robert

Answer 1

Robert, Scott,
     I just did a non-DITA test of the r/w rule:
         element "Image" {
      is fm graphic element;
      attribute "placement" {
        is fm property position;
        value "inline" is fm property value inline;
        value "break" is fm property value bottom;
     My test document had two Image elements, one positioned at the insertion point, one at the bottom of the column. In both cases, the placement attribute was set correctly when I saved the document as XML and interpreted correctly when I opened the XML document.
    Robert, does your EDD define the placement attribute? If so (and you want to keep it), you need to add the subrule
        is fm attribute;
to the attribute subrule. However, since setting the attribute in the FM document does not affect the anchored frame position, so I recommend deleting the attribute from the EDD. The r/w rule I suggest assumes the attribute is XML-only.
    Before you make that change, though, I wonder if the value "inline" appears in italics in the Structure View. Italics indicates the default value for an attribute that has not been set. That would explain why you see the value in the Structure View but not in the attribute editor.
         --Lynne