On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 12:32 -0800, John Jordan wrote: > On 25 Feb 2006, at 2:29, Ross Johnson wrote: > > > > Doesn't work. I'm using the lines with arrows in Writer, not a Draw > > > document. The Styles palette in Writer is grayed out when a drawing > > > object is selected. If I open a Draw document I can create a line, and I > > > can > > > create a style for it, but the style does not appear in the Writer window, > > > even when a line is selected in the Writer document. > > > > I read the bug report referred to earlier, and the method there works. > > The trick is to set the line properties while no objects are selected. > > That style then sticks for subsequent lines. The same goes for default > > style for area fill. See below. > > OK, got that part working, except it is not a solution to my > problem. I need to draw lines that looks like this: (The A is an > arrowhead) | | A |______| > > The problem is that your method sets the default line as having an > arrowhead that is 5 pts wide by 8 pts high (that's what I chose with > nothing selected). That works for the line with the A on top. But > then, when I go to draw the other two lines they come out with an > arrowhead also. So > now I > have to go in and change the default back to no arrowhead. Back and forth, > back and forth. What am I supposed to do if I want arrowheads only on > some lines, but whenever there *is* an arrowhead I want it 5 pts by 8 pts, > not the default 10 pts by 10 pts?
Well, at this stage I would be using Draw. But staying within Writer, the options are, I think: - copy&paste from an existing line-with-arrow (already set to your specification) whenever you need a new one, and then adjust the position and end points of the copy. You can select an object and then copy&paste with a single mouse click (middle button in Linux - maybe wheel or left +right click in Windows). You could create a collection of different styled objects off to the side as a kind of object library; - organise to do all lines and then all arrowheads; - if you need to alternate, then do all arrowheads as lines (or lines as arrows - depending on what you have least of) but change one of the more easily altered attributes, such as colour so you can recognise them later. Then, when finished, select all the 'coloured' lines and re-style them all together to your specification. Still trying encourage you to use Draw: If you use Draw, you get separate line and line-with-arrow tools (although you still can't set a separate default for line-with-arrow) but, more importantly, you can use connector lines, which move automatically if the objects they're connected to move. To do what you want to do with the arrowheads in Draw, you would still need to create a new line style as described previously, select your arrowed lines and double-click your new style to change to your preferred arrow size. There are three options for using Draw with Writer: - create a separate Draw document and link it into the Writer document; - embed (OLE object) a Draw object; - cut&paste the drawing from Draw. The last option moves the individual draw objects into a frame in Writer as a grouped set. You can ungroup it if you need to modify it within Writer, but it's easier to do major additions by cut&paste the group back to Draw (and then ungroup it). > What I need is for the arrowhead style to keep the dimensions, but that > doesn't seem to be possible. Maybe a solution would be to find the config > file where it says to start all arrowheads at 10 x 10, and change the setting > to 5 x 8. See above suggestions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
