Does anyone else get frustrated by OOo hampering what should be an easy
job? Silly inconsistencies and limitations, I mean. For example, the job
in hand is to create a single document with a mix of portrait (single
column) and landscape (double column) pages. It's actually for a song
book, the orientation to be determined song-by-song by length and number
of lines.
On the face of it, not too hard using page styles. The catch is, I
really want a page header of some sort, with the page number, at the
/physical/ top of each page (so in the same place when bound whichever
orientation is used). No difficulty with the portrait pages, but the
landscape ones have me stumped........
The automatic header facility rotates the header to be landscape if the
page is in landscape format. Not what's needed, as the page number will
be in a daft place.
OK, try a section for the text on a portrait page. Well, you can't pick
the angle for a section, so try again.
Put the text in a rotated text box on a portrait page. Bingo, I can have
the header, and the text box will rotate. Except I need two text columns
on the landscape page, and you can't do that in a text box. (Oh, and
resizing a rotated text box does some /very/ odd things. But never mind)
Try again.
Let's make the page landscape, and use a rotated text box for the header
instead. Fine, I can put a header in to be at the top of the physical
page. Except now I can't put a page number into it. All fields are
greyed out of the insertion menu within a text box. So close, but once
more....
Try using a frame. At least that will take multiple columns, and as a
bonus I can flow into another frame onto another page. Ah, except frames
don't seem to be rotatable, so not much use either for text or header.
(But I /could/ put in the page number, unlike a text box.)
And there I run out of ideas. Maybe I'll be reduced to running the paper
through the printer twice, once for the header, once for the main text;
but that's ridiculous!!
Surely I can't be the only person ever to want to do this!? And anyway
why the crazy mix of allowable things - multicolumn and fields allowed
in a frame but not a text box; a text box is rotatable, but not a frame.
Meanwhile, any ideas??????? Please!
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Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- [deletethis]
scottsonline.org.uk)
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