Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: rotating a text frame with respect to the superordinate text

Michael,I'm sorry that I don't understand your proposal.  At its simplest,
      this guidebook can be thought of as having two page types: 7x8.5"
      for the default page and 14x8.5" for the middle page with its
      centerfold spread of a table summarizing documentary requirements.
      As such, that table is oriented 90° counterclockwise to the text
      of the rest of the guidebook; hence my thought to encapsulate that
      table in a frame rotated 90° counterclockwise. I'm afraid I can't
      visualize the use of two separate frames. Could you explain
      further?Thanks,JohnOn 2024-07-29 21:44, Michael Coughlin wrote:
Could you create two separate frames, one (for each
        page) and butt them close to the right and left margins of the
        two pages) and thereby create a "rotated" impression?
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at
          8:27 PM John Kaufmann wrote:
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          . .LO 7.6.5.2I believe I have done this before (not recently), but cannot
          find the earlier example or a solution documented in the LO
          Help or Writer Guide (6.0 or 7.2 or 7.3 (the latest)).I have a booklet [as it happens, a 
guide for election judges]
          which will include, at its centerfold, a long table
          summarizing the documentation for which a judge is
          responsible. Because that table is longer than a page length,
          I want to rotate it 90° counterclockwise, to span the the
          centerfold at what would otherwise be two pages. [Thus the
          page style "Booklet-middle" (14x8.5") is twice the width of
          the default "Booklet" (7x8.5") page, all printed on 14x8.5"
          paper. (Obviously one could similarly use A4 and A5, printed
          on A4.)]To do this, I thought I could put the table inside a frame
          rotated 90° counterclockwise from the normal (superordinate)
          booklet text - but I can't find out how to do that.  The
          Writer Guide (6.0, 7.2, 7.3) has an oblique reference to
          "Marginalia" as an example of text frames rotated 90° from the
          page text, but no guide on how to do that. WG 7.2 and 7.3 even
          include a note, "An example is given in Chapter 8,
          Introduction to Styles" - but, alas, there is nothing there
          [likely a good intention that fell through a crack]. And, LO's
          online Help has nothing on "marginalia" or rotating frames.Can someone point to what I am 
missing?Thanks,John


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