In a message dated 2010.08.25 18:02 -0500, NoOp wrote:
On 08/23/2010 04:00 AM, william drescher wrote:
On 8/23/2010 2:04 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
I /think/ I understand: WordPerfect allows absolute or relative
positioning (in WP parlance, "advancing") of anything to 1/1200"
[called wpu(=WordPerfect units)] - like a DPT program. For form
creation and matching, it's hard to beat for predictable ease of
use. I expect Bill is looking for something like that, which I
have not found in Writer. ... Among word processors, at least,
WP probably has no peer as a print engine, so sometimes it just
makes sense to go back to that.
The problem I see with defining a paragraph indent is that I
potentially have 150 different paragraphs, which would require
150 different style definitions.
I may be able to get by by using unbreaking spaces, but what a
mess. I can't use WP on this project unfortunately.
I'm still missing the big picture... You have potentially 150 items, can
you not use Anchor, Guides, Alignment etc?
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Form_controls_reference>
I have no doubt that you have a better grasp of the big picture than I
have, but I have never found any tools in Writer forms for sizing and
positioning other than dragging with a mouse [which in my hands, at
least, is not about precision ;-) ]. I just looked at your reference
and found nothing about "Anchor", "Guides" or "Alignment". (That said, I
think I know what Writer means by "anchors" and "alignment", and
neither, in the common understanding, is about sizing and positioning.)
Similarly, it seems that "Guides" are just the visible guides to assist
graphical sizing and positioning. Could I ask you to point to a guide
(in the instructive sense) to sizing and positioning?
Sorry to be dense,
John
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