On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brian Barker<[email protected]> wrote: > You seem not to have any replies to this: I suspect that you have given > insufficient information for anyone to help. > > At 12:21 19/08/2009 +0530, you wrote: >> >> In OpenOffice Writer 3.0, the text for a paragraph [1] flows over across >> to the next page ... > > For text to flow to the next page when appropriate is quite normal, of > course. > >> ... way beyond the page margins [2]. > > Sorry, but I don't see this. All the text I can see is within the text > area, as shown by the thin grey line. Why do you say it is beyond? You > mean that it is too far down the page?
See Pict [1]: after a single carriage return [Enter]. the text (beginning with "Get into Groups" ... ) should fall on the first line of the next page; what actually happens is shown in Pict [2] (goes way beyond the first line and well into the next page). > >> I tried setting the paragraph options > Spacing (above & below paragraph), >> both to 0 [3], but still the text overflows even after only a single >> carriage return. > > The big question - on which you are keeping quiet - is exactly what is > causing that large gap between paragraphs. Whether you want the gap or not, > you ought to know - and be telling the list - how you have created this. I have not created the gap b/w the paras; I don't know how that paragraph-gap got created; that is what I want to trouble-shoot. >> Is there a way to fix this ? > > You cannot fix something unless you know what the problem is, and I don't > yet see anything wrong. > > Are you just trying to put the new section, with its heading, at the top of > the next page? And are you doing this by pressing Enter a number of times - > in other words, adding a number of empty paragraphs? That works on a > typewriter, but you are not using a typewriter! If you do this, what > happens if you then add a little material somewhere in the first four pages? > The alignment to the top of page 5 goes all awry! To move to a new page, > put the cursor at the end of the existing material and go to Insert | Manual > Break... | Page break. There is neither a section nor page break introduced, and 'Enter' is keyeed only once. > I wonder whether what you mean is that, having got the document as your > first picture, adding a single empty paragraph (pressing Enter once) changes > to your second picture. instead of putting the text at the top of the new > page. Yes that is the problem. > (Remember that you get this problem only because you are going about > things the wrong way.) The space that will be occupied by an empty > paragraph depends on the character and paragraph properties - and style > properties - of *those empty paragraphs*, not of the paragraphs you can see > and are trying to position. If those empty paragraphs have large spacings > set either before or after them or if their font size is set particularly > large, then each empty paragraph will occupy a large space - potentially > creating the effect you see. And note that if you press Enter after such a > paragraph, Writer will - helpfully! - create another paragraph wit the same > properties. I don't get the part about an empty paragraph having a style/ properties. What I have tried to do is to select the current para & the one preceding it and then ensuring that the spacing 'Above para' and 'Below para' is 0 (Pict 3] - this used to do the needful (mostly) in Word XP. But I have not been able to find a solution in OO-Writer. (Pl Note: there is no large spacing either before or after the para and the font sizes are the same.) I can get the first line of the para (Get in Groups ...) upto the 2nd line of the next page, but not the first line of next page; and am managing with that. This does not happen with all documents, but especially when I have copy-pasted formatted (HTML) text from a webpage. If it is relevant, I have set the upper, lower, right & left page margins to about 0.5" so as to accommodate more text on a single page. These are my page settings [4]. Thanks, Jay Images [1] http://www.imagebam.com/image/03693a45913111 [2] http://www.imagebam.com/image/714e8d45913112 [3] http://www.imagebam.com/image/5155a045913113 [4] http://www.imagebam.com/image/b9c68b46442014 (I am not sure if HTML is allowed on this list; so have sent plain text reply) -- Linux User 483705 | openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686) w /Win XP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
