To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=83218 Issue #|83218 Summary|Page brak handling that can go into template Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.2.1 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P5 Subcomponent|formatting Assigned to|mru Reported by|gnor
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 1 18:57:40 +0000 2007 ------- Dear Members! There is in the CSS specs an option for print layout named "page-break-before: avoid" This was introduced due to the fact that the web designer is unable to anticipate the paper format the user may print upon. Also the display size options of MSIE will propagate through to the printer, messing up page breaks even more than other browsers. The only program that implemented this feature independently from the W3C was AMI Pro, bought once by Lotus, so it came to me during the OS/2 period. Later Lotus renamed it Word Pro and retained this feature. Most people will be unable to appreciate this feature. Well, I started with punched cards about 30 years ago, so I have still the habit of letting the machine do the work instead of doing everything manually the PC hast taught generations of users. The problem: Most of the documents that went on paper were plain business letters, which have several formal header parts, a number of paragraphs in the body, and several formal trailer parts, at least the "Kind regards" or similar above the signature, bureaucratic formalism may call for a couple of trailer parts more. Perhaps I am that idiosyncratic, but even with the typewriter, I managed to get my letters exactly that long, that the "Kind regards" had to be queezed in the bottom margin. On the computer, this got orphaned on the final page. Aye, DOS-Word 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, and Winword 2.0a allowed me to switch between different print layout templates twiddling with margins. Also they allowed the "Standard" paragraph format to be cloned and a "page-break-after: avoid" added. As pointed out above, this is a nuisance to me. A "page-break-before: avoid" can be put into the document template, thus the need for a manual afterwork is eliminated, and even paper and ink saved when this formatting error has made it onto paper which is quite likely especially under time pressure and other stuff in a busy office. Thus "page-break-before:avoid" became to me the killer feature of Lotus Word Pro. I hope they haven't patented this. OOo lacks the "page-break-before: avoid" because it started out as an MS-Office clone. MS-Office, however, never implemented it, despite my complaints at the registration of DOS-Word 4.0. Instead, having seen lots of versions on various business computers, their Usability Lab is toddlerising the users increasingly with every version, breaking the habits of experienced users with every new version, eliminating functions from main and right-click menus, moving them to little known mouse gestures, you can't even use the keyboard shortcut available in Explorer's details view. So the feature suggested here will appreciate concerning users, as should be more numerous with OOo than with any other software, with the exception of Word Perfect and LaTeX/TeX, their users had the option to put a "page-break: avoid" /between/ paragraphs, which could go into their document templates. To advertise this feature, the letter document templates should have preformatted their trailer components with "page-break-before: avoid" and this should be advertised in the help and tips as well. Increasing numbers of OOo users getting used to this way of automation will have fun letting MS-Office users in the dust, that may generate quite a number of flame wars in the appropriate forums. Kind regards /*"page-break-before:avoid"*/ Norbert Grün /*"page-break-before:avoid"*/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
