At 12:49 07/09/2013 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
In Writer, FrameMaker and the TeX family, a document consists of a
continuous stream of text. If you insert additional text at the
beginning, all the text moves down, including the creation of new
pages at the end if necessary.
The other applications I mentioned are "page layout" applications.
In a page layout application each page is a container. Everything
that goes on a page goes into a graphics or a text frame. The frames
never automatically move, regardless of how much stuff you add stuff
to them. For text to flow from one page to the next there must be successive
frames on the pages and the frames must be linked. You can drag
frames around, create new ones, change the size and shape, but a
frame always stays precisely where you put it on a page. You can
link text frames that are pages apart - think of a magazine where a
story begins toward the front of the magazine, runs for a couple of
pages, and then you see "continued on page x."
Writer won't do everything, but you appear not to realise what it can
do. Writer has frames, which can indeed be anchored to pages, and
have the sort of properties you describe. It also allows linked
frames. The only restriction appears to be that linked frames must
be in the same section. Try it! (See "frames;linking" in the help text.)
Brian Barker
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