I'm cross-posting this to Docs, in case someone there (who doesn't
read the Authors list) might know of some resources for Gary and me.
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Is there some documentation of disclosed or undisclosed information of
whatever options Writer has for setting type? MS Word has a number of
such options which can be used by an editor to tweak the text. What I
have been experimenting with the past couple weeks (with Word 2007) is
attempting to lay out text manually much like a printer might. This
means that the orphan/widow control is disabled and the leading for all
paragraph styles is constant (and generally multiples of the lowest
leading value--typically 13.2 pt (120%) for an 11 pt font size, for
example.
For those times when the text doesn't fit the bottom of the page
perfectly, some tweaking of the interparagraph spacing is used (e.g.,
1/2 and 1 1/2 leading value). However, for those books where there is
not any real space between text bodies, this may cause some problems.
Usually, the most problems might arise mostly for three-line
paragraphs--if an objective is to not allow an widows or orphans.
Does anybody have any practical experience with this, and is there a
body of literature anywhere with some suggestions as it pertains to
Writer specifically?
By coincidence, I was just starting to investigate typesetting
features, tweaks, and workarounds in Writer. So far I haven't looked
at vertical tweaks (leading, line spacing, para spacing, and so on),
but that's next on my list. If I find something, I'll let you know.
Please do the same!
What I have been looking for is a way to define a paragraph style with
a different character style (for example, all caps) for the first
word. I know how to manually apply a character style, of course, but
I'd like to have it part of the para style. Drops caps would do the
job, but drop caps have a minimum height of 2 lines. Perhaps someone's
produced a macro for this purpose? I didn't spot anything in the
Extensions repository (though I could have missed it), but I have a
lot of other places to search. If someone can point me in the right
direction, that would be great.
--Jean
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