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- Hints & Tips
- 7.3
- • Two independent stories with Ovation − Richard Hallas demonstrated an
- excellent method of creating two independent stories with Impression in
- the ‘Hints & Tips’ column (Archive 6.12 p27). To perform a similar task
- with Ovation is not quite so easy but there is a way that this layout
- can be obtained.
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- Double-click on the Ovation application to load it onto the iconbar.
- Click <menu> over Ovation’s icon and select the ‘New Document’ option.
- From this menu, choose the A4 page, ‘Portrait’ orientation and single
- column options. For this example, I will create two independent columns
- on an A4 sized page. Similar layouts can be created with other page
- sizes.
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- Once Ovation’s main window has been opened, click <menu> and select the
- ‘Page’ menu. From this menu click on ‘Show Master Pages’. You will now
- see Ovation’s master page for the A4 document. Ovation, unlike
- Impression, does not allow you to delete any frames on the master page.
- Alter the width of the A4 frame by choosing ‘Object’ from Ovation’s main
- menu and then from the ‘Object’ menu select ‘Modify Frame’.
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- Set the main frame width to 90mm and height to 255mm. After modifying
- the frame it will be displayed on the left hand side of Ovation’s master
- page. Now create an identical sized text frame, using the text frame
- icon on Ovation’s tool bar, and place it on the left hand side of the
- master page, making sure that it aligns perfectly with the left hand
- frame. Check with Ovation’s ‘Modify Frame’ option that this newly
- created frame has identical dimensions to the previously created frame.
- At this stage, any header or footer frames should be added to the master
- page. You may well have to alter the height of both main text frames to
- accommodate the header and footer frames.
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- Now quit the master page and return to Ovation’s main window. Ovation
- still displays the original A4 frame outline. To display your newly
- created dual frame layout, you will need to select the ‘Page’ option
- from Ovation’s main menu. From this ‘Page’ menu select the ‘Insert Page’
- option and a box ‘Insert Pages’ will appear on the screen. Click on ‘OK’
- and the newly created page will now be displayed in Ovation’s window.
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- If you have already created two independent text stories with another
- word processing package, you will need to have both stories saved as
- plain text files, ready to drop into each newly created Ovation frame.
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- Click <select> on the first of these text stories and drag the file into
- Ovation’s left hand main frame, making sure that this frame is the one
- selected. The text will fill the frame and generate the necessary number
- of linked frames to accommodate the story. Remember that this left hand
- frame was originally Ovation’s A4 master page frame, adjusted to the
- required size to accommodate another frame alongside it.
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- If you now select and drag the other text story into Ovation’s right
- hand frame, you will notice that only the first right hand frame will
- fill with text, and that Ovation’s text overflow arrow is displayed at
- the bottom of this frame. For the text in this right hand frame to flow
- through the length of the entire document, you will need to select the
- ‘Link Frame’ option from Ovation’s tool bar. Once this has been
- selected, you must then individually link each right hand frame
- throughout the length of the document. As you link each right hand
- frame, you will notice that the text story flows from the previous
- frame. Note that you can choose the ‘Link Frame’ option from the tool
- bar with <adjust>. If this is done, this option will remain selected,
- but will significantly slow down the scrolling speed of pages.
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- It is most important to drop the first text story into Ovation’s left
- hand frame. This is the frame that generates automatically linked frames
- as the text flows throughout the document.
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- Ovation can, of course, be used to produce the original stories, with
- the proviso that the left hand frames are used to write the first story.
- If required, the two frames on Ovation’s master page may be swapped
- over, so that the first story can be set in the right hand frame. Mike
- King, Guernsey. A
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