Peter Hillier-Brook schrieb:

> Mathias Bauer wrote:
>> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> 
>>> That's correct the way things are, but it wouldn't be very hard to 
>>> incorporate 
>>> in a table-based system. Even the "competition" have achieved it:-)
>> 
>> As the labels document is just a regular document that is created by a
>> Wizard it should be possible to create such a document based on a table
>> manually. Would you volunteer to create such a document for any label
>> format of your choice just for demonstration purposes? By playing around
>> with it it could be easier to grasp the difference and the possible
>> advantages and disadvantages (if there are any ;-)).
> 
> I assume that you are not asking me to write a Wizard, but merely to supply a 
> table-based template? 
Of course. :-)

> I've created a few, both A4 and US sizes and they are available for download 
> from:
> http://hbsys.co.uk/openoffice/Just%20Templates.zip

Thanks, got them and will play with them a bit.

>> Currently I understood that the main advantage of the tables approach is
>> the vertical alignment. Is there anything else that could be used as a
>> justification for the effort to change the wizard?
> 
> Only ease of manually creating new formats comes to mind presently. That was 
> my 
> secondary driver after vertical centring.

Isn't that what the wizard is for?

Ciao,
Mathias

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