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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Feb 22 23:07:58 +0000 2010 ------- regina -- "can't print the left and right "pages" separately" I was simply referring to the idea of putting up both pages in a 2x wide format on 11x17 page size. It looks great on screen, but at print time, you can't print the left half of the 11x17 sheet as one page and the right half as the next page. Sorry if you misunderstood why a bigger landscape doesn't work. You say -- "Different layout for columns on right and left pages is possible for page columns". Yes, but how do you get any column to wrap down to the same column on the next odd or even page number? That is the CRUX of this issue, and it is why one cannot separate the concepts of parallel columns from different column layouts for odd and even pages. Once you create different layouts for odd and even pages, then the issue of parallel columns to completely tied to it -- they cannot be separated. If the columns on an even page wrapped to the next odd page number, the entire text would be rendered in the wrong formatting. Yes I have since read post 17960 -- it is very old, the need is not described in detail, and the posters have used the old work-arounds of tables and frames, which I have found do not work with long documents where synchronization of the parallel columns is required. A fresh look at the reasons why this should be treated as a separate format issue -- and not try to use work-arounds, I feel is worthwhile. It will immensely improve OO's scope and appeal I think. I posted on that other thread a request to transfer interest to my new thread. You may say this is impossible, so not knowing procedures as you do, you are welcome to make changes or do whatever you feel is needed to keep this request alive. You will notice on the old thread that the issue DIED 3 years ago. Can it be revived so developers consider it for V3 -- not V. 1 and 2? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
