On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:05:21 +0100 Erling Larsen <[email protected]> dijo:
> > I would use Scribus (much better tool for this job), except that > > Scribus does not do tables and won't have that functionality for a > > couple years. I have a book that needs an average of one table per > > page and I need to write it *now*. Hence I am stuck with pressing OOo > > into service as a page layout app. > My version of Scribus (1.3.3.12 windows) does do tables. Insert -> Tables Yes, I am aware of that feature in Scribus. But it is a pathetic kludge. All Scribus can do (including the current unstable development version 1.3.5svn) is fake a table with a script that creates little frames grouped together. The frames are not connected in the sense that you don't have rows and columns that can be resized, merged, added to, or perform operations on like summing the contents. I need real tables. OOo provides me with tables that are perfect for my needs. I just wish I could use Writer more like a page layout app. But, of course, that is not what it was primarily designed for. I have considered just hitting Ctrl-Enter over and over to create blank pages and then filling them with frames. The problem is that (at least on the Gnome desktop) frames make the document scrolling very jerky and slow. Plus, it is difficult to move frames around precisely with the mouse because there are no guides or page margins that are sticky like you have in a page layout app like Scribus. But at least it would stop the "continuous text" design of Writer so that I wouldn't be suddenly inserting a new page in the middle of a section and messing up my page layouts. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
