At 14:11 16/05/2011 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:
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.
[...]
create a small ellipse ... anchor to char, ...
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.
It's anchored to the character, but it is still positioned according
to other options - and the default for horizontal appears to be to
"paragraph area". If you want the graphic to move horizontally with
the anchor character, go to Format | Object > | Position and Size...
| Position and Size | Position | Horizontal (or right-click |
Position and Size... | Position and Size | Position | Horizontal),
and select Character from the drop-down menu for "to".
Is 'anchor to character' just a misnomer for 'anchor to line'?
I don't think of that as a misnomer. Vertically, the position of a
character is simply that of the line of which it currently forms
part. But as text is edited, the line in which any character appears
is not a fixed quantity: you only have to add a single character, and
the line you had before no longer exists. So "anchor to line" would
make no sense, but vertically "anchor to character" is the same as
"anchor to line of which this character from time to time forms part".
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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