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- From: pjl@sparc10.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
- Subject: Re: Positioning question for Word 5
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.222759.5113@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Keywords: Word, question, frame, position
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1992Aug12.184952.6594@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:27:59 GMT
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- In <1992Aug12.184952.6594@athena.mit.edu> boyce@amo.mit.edu (Kevin Boyce) writes:
-
- >So this isn't really a Word question, because it seems to be standard
- >in all the word processors I've tried, but it bugs me....
- >
- >Why the hell won't text flow backward past a positioned object (now
- >called a "frame")? Or, to put it another way, why is the page break
- >calculated BEFORE the positioning is done?
-
- >I have lots of full-page figures in my t----s (I'll be able to speak
- >the word after my defense, I promise), and I don't want a random fraction
- >of the preceding page to be blank in every case. If I don't frame it,
- >naturally it does a page break before the large graphic. But, if I
- >use a frame, putting it at, say, the top of the page, it STILL forces
- >a new page break before the graphic, which then goes at the top of the
- >next page.
-
- >When I had 4.0, I called MS several times, and got several bogus answers
- >from several morons, and one useful fellow who said, "Yes, that's a deliberate
- >design decision." Does anybody know if there's a way around it now?
- >I haven't called MS yet, and I'll do that unless somebody here knows
- >any good info about the situation.
-
- >Am I the only person who is bothered by this?
-
- *****> Using troff and one of the standard macro-packages, one had the
- ability to define "floating-paragraphs" wherein one could deposit
- a figure. The figure would then float forward until it was able
- to fit, with the text filling behind it.
-
- Why Word doesn;t do this is beyond me; noooo, you have to have at
- least 1 inch, but then you get a thin column of text. It should
- push the text apart instead.
- --
- - Paul J. Lucas University of Illinois
- AT&T Bell Laboratories at Urbana-Champaign
- Naperville, IL pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
-