Desilets, Alain wrote:
Dear Andrew, thank you for your detailed answer (especially since you said you
din't have much time available ;-).
Position the image vaguely where you want it, right click on
it, and chose anchor as character. The image will now act as
a character so it will move with the text.
Hum... What happens when the paragraph moves around (because of insertions and
deletions) and the figure ends say, at the bottom two lines of a page where it
can't fit?
My own approach to positioning figures is to put them at the top or bottom of
the page closest to the paragraph that introduces them. I know lots of people
who use this approach, so I'm surprised that neither MS-Word nor Open Office
have an anchoring option to do it.
As it is now, what I do (in both MS-Word and Open Office), is to anchor the
figure to the page where the introducing paragraph is orginally, and then, move
them to a different page manually if ever that paragraph moves to a page too
far from the original page. Doing these manual checks is a real pain. I really
wish that either MS-Word or Open Office supported that anchoring strategy.
You can choose to anchor them as you desire, just learn the differences
so that it will behave as YOU want.
Now, you want to place the caption below the figure. Your
natural inclination is to right click and choose Add Caption.
This doesn't work for me. When I insert the picture, it automatically gets a
caption. If I do right click, Caption, I get a dialog box for editing the
caption, but what it does is to create a second caption below the automatically
generated one. Kind of strange, because I cannot imagine any circumstances
under which a user would want two different captions for a same figure.
Presumably a bug in Open Office?
This is because your copy has been configured to automatically insert a
caption. This is not the default, so someone changed it.
This is probably under
Tools > Options > Writer > Captions
but that might not be until OOo 2.3, which should release in about a week.
On the caption line, do the following:
1. Enter the text "Figure "
2. Use Insert > Fields > Others. Click on the Variables tab.
3. In the Types list on the left, click on "Number Range".
Neat. That's one way to have figures be labeled as "Figures" instead of "Illustration".
But it seems a bit convoluted compared to the other suggestions that I have
been given.
I think that you can auto-caption using the Illustration variable or the
Figure variable. Ultimately, this is just the name of the variable that
is used.
Enough for now.
Again, thank you for your help.
Maybe you can help with my next problem.
I need to position two figures side by side, and have them aligned, i.e. each
take up half of the width of page, and have their captions aligned vertically.
I managed to do that by putting the figures inside a two columns table, but I
can't figure out how to anchor a table to a page.
If you want them side by side (as it were), I expect you to anchor them
as a character inside of a table. If you want them to float, then place
the table in a frame and let the frame float. After you are finished,
you can modify the table properties to NOT show the grid lines, but it
is probably easier to manipulate the table if you start with the grid
lines visible.
Alain Désilets
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