Re: [libreoffice-users] anchoring frame to character - problems positioning

Hello Mike

I might suggest you use something that is a little more direct.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/softchord/
http://www.opensong.org/pages/downloads.html

Depending on your operating system, Google "free chord editor software".

For exact notation.
The grandaddy of programs is http://www.lilypond.org/download.html

LibreOffice add-on
MuseScore Example Manager for LibreOffice
MuseScore Example Manager for LibreOffice
http://www.outsideshore.com/music/music-software/musescore-example-manager-for-libreoffice/
which requires https://musescore.org/

Hope this helps
Paul


On 9/1/2015 5:47 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
> I've been banging my head against this one off and on for quite a 
> while, and either I'm totally misunderstanding what's supposed to 
> happen, or there's a problem in LO. I'd appreciate advice please.
>
> The goal is to print music lyrics with chord (text) appropriately 
> aligned above the lyrics. The ultimate goal is to create the .odt 
> document programmatically: I'm most of the way there, but the way 
> positioning works in conjunction with 'anchor to character' has me 
> baffled.
>
> I'm using a frame to hold the chord text, and trying to attach the 
> frame to a given character below in the lyric line, using 'anchor to 
> character'. Horizontal position is no bother at all - with the text 
> centred in the frame, and the frame centred on the lyrics character, 
> things look good.
>
> However, vertical positioning is another matter. It's not at all clear 
> what 'bottom', 'top', 'from bottom' (etc) are supposed to do (the help 
> file is lamentably lacking here). I had supposed that "from bottom" 
> might allow the distance from the bottom of the frame to some 
> reference point on the character to be specified, but as I've 
> experimented I've found little logical relationship. Indeed the 
> character-to-frame distance can vary with paragraph line spacing even 
> when apparently nominally "locked" to the character -- not at all what 
> I expected, nor what I need! What actually happens appears so 
> ill-determined, it's not even easy to describe.
>
> So, to cut to the real question: how do I "lock" a frame to float just 
> above a given character in some text, and keep the same relative 
> position as that character moves and text line spacing changes?
>
> Or have I missed a better (easier!) way of achieving my goal?
>
>
> I hope that makes some sort of sense!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> (Addendum - the GUI only allows up to 200% proportional line spacing 
> in a paragraph style which isn't enough for my purpose. A quick tweak 
> to the styles.xml file shows this is purely a gui limitation, and that 
> the basic LO rendering seems to deal with arbitrarily large ratios - I 
> tried up to 500%. Any particular reason for the GUI's low limit??)


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