Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames & anchoring in a technical report

On 2/14/2012 8:18 PM, Calvin Kim wrote:
> On 02/14/2012 12:00 PM, Ethan Swint wrote:
> > I've been frustrated with my experience trying to anchor frames 
> > (containing figures and captions). What I'd really like to do is 
> > anchor a frame to a character (which refers to the frame's contents), 
> > but not force a large white space on the page if the anchor character 
> > and the frame don't fit on the same page.  In other words,
> > A) Obtain the reference character's Y coordinates, Cy
> > B) Obtain the frame's Y dimension, Fy
> > C) Obtain the text area's Y dimension, Py
> > C) If Py- Fy > Cy, place frame at bottom of character's page
> > D) else, place frame at top of page following character's page
> >
> > Is this possible with LO Writer? What I've been forced to do at this 
> > point is to anchor the frame to the page, then move all of the frames 
> > in the document when my edits move text.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ethan
>
> If you anchor an object to a character, your object will be treated as 
> a character. That's why there are large white space on the line of 
> your object due to its height.
> Instead, anchor it to a paragraph. Then you have freedom to move your 
> object around.
From my experience, what you're describing is anchoring 'as' a 
character; I'm anchoring 'to' a character, as anchoring 'to' a paragraph 
isn't specific enough for my document. The problem comes when the page 
break falls such that a full page would require the character to be on 
one page and the frame to be on the next.

I've looked, but I haven't uncovered a mechanism in LO Writer to deal 
with this situation satisfactorily.

-Ethan

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