> the page layout you are attempting is rather more complex > than what I have done so far.
Well, it didn't seem all -that- tricky on the storyboard... What I wanted to do, however, turns out to be precisely what OO can't handle: 1) Anchor page-wide images to the bottom of particular chapter pages, so that the text would simply flow past them without moving them elsewhere. I expected that they'd stay stuck there, relative to the start of the chapter, in the master document. 2) Anchor smaller, half-page-wide pictures to the lower outside corner of specific pages. Text should wrap around the pictures in the obvious manner. Ditto for staying on the same relative page. 3) Ideally, page-wide equations should notice when they're adjacent to a picture and behave appropriately. However, assuming a more-or-less stable layout, I'd be willing to hand-tweak a few offenders. None of this stuff seems like rocket science in the document layout world. It's not like I'm trying to do, say, Pantone-matched, full-bleed, double-page-spread, alpha-knockout backgrounds with slanted callouts. > bugs related to the use of custom page and paragraph > styles Words just cannot express how much I'm looking forward to finding out what -else- doesn't work, because, natch, I (intend to / must) use all of those to get a 7x9" page layout. F'r instance, I wanted to put full-page illustrations, code listings, and suchlike on specific chapter pages so body text doesn't even try to flow there. I figured on different page styles (some using that hideous landscape-in-a-portrait document trick), but haven't actually tried building such a thing. Sounds like I shouldn't get my hopes up, eh? Successfully following your excellent User Guide instructions for other topics, I might add, led me to expect that it might work. <grin> I just rebuilt the book template using two-cell tables stashed in AutoText (yick) to put the caption on the side, even using the appropriate para style. Those lumps flop on the page smoothly enough, although the result isn't as visually appealing unless I go for old-school Scientific-American length captions to fill up all that white space. Not flowing text around those pictures neatly sidesteps problems with equation wrapping. > seeing some examples of your files Being a bear of little imagination, the end result will look a lot like my other book, which you can actually browse online by searching for 157398017X (the ISBN) at amazon.com. Tickling the "Surprise me!" knob will give you a pretty good idea of what I thought looked OK and was do-able at the time (the cover was -not- my idea). I think I've learned a few refinements since then, but I'll still be using good old Adobe Caslon as the body face... That book had mostly full-page-width illustrations anchored top-or-bottom, but now I have lots of little pictures that would look better with the caption below and body text wrapped along the side. Sigh. Anyhow, thanks for the warnings. I'll keep the list up to date. Might need to kibitz with you offlist, too, if that's OK. Onward... -- Ed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
