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On 02/15/2012 09:00 AM, Ethan Swint wrote:


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

I see what you are trying to do. I had similar cases few times, and each case, I have to adjusted it manually. But if there are many graphics and many updates of contents, it will be time consuming.

I don't think LO offers anchor "to" a character.
'Anchor to paragraph' is like anchor to first character of paragraph.
Maybe you can request new/modified feature to development team to anchor "to" character, or anchor to paragraph but you can anchor it anywhere in paragraph.

cK

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