I'm sure I've raised this before, but it's still an issue for me.
What /exactly/ is "anchor TO character" supposed to do in Writer?
Naively, I would suppose a graphic (or whatever) so marked would "stick"
to a given character, and move with it retaining a fixed relative
position. But not so, it appears.
To be concrete, if I enter some text:
[newline]
12345 abcde 98765
[newline]
then create a small ellipse (a little below the 'b'), right click and
select anchor to char, I see my (blue) ellipse below the 'b' plus its
'anchor' symbol just below left of the text plus a cross-hairs cursor. I
click on the 'b' in my text (plumb dead centre of the loop!), the cursor
changes to the normal insert cursor, positioned after the 'b' and the
anchor symbol vanishes. Looks as though something possibly useful has
happened.
But, if I then move the text around horizontally (space bar), the
ellipse stays still. If I adjust the vertical position (enter), the
ellipse follows.
So what exactly is supposed to happen please? And what's the point of
something "vertically anchored" but not horizontally? Is 'anchor to
character' just a misnomer for 'anchor to line'?
I'm really puzzled about this, and info on the web seems very sketchy.
Thanks.
(3.2.0/ubuntu 10.04, but it's the same on XP)
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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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