Re: [libreoffice-users] Correcting reflow problems causes overlay

Robert,

On 2026-04-20 09:04, Robert Funnell wrote:
> ... At one point when I was struggling with image positioning, I wrote some notes at 
> https://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/swil_ooo.html#:~:text=Image%20positioning. At the end 
> there's a link to an old bug report (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140702) 
> with 'a long and lively discussion of page anchors and of the frustrations of image positioning in 
> general'. It may not solve your problem but it may provide some hints, or at least a sense of 
> having company.
Thank you! - both of your links were extremely interesting, and I have bookmarked them and the wiki's 
"Anchoring and Positioning FAQ" 
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/AnchoringAndPositioning>, referenced by the informative 
Comment#10 in the bug discussion.

Your post helped me appreciate that, despite using OO/LO for years (usually successfully), I had not developed a proper 
grounding in the principles of image and frame positioning, and the different ways that LO exposes those positioning 
choices to the user in the dialog box and the context menus. (For example, the "To page" anchor is included 
in the dialog box but excluded from the context menu, while the Alignment and Adjustment choices are included in the 
context menu but excluded from the dialog box.)  I'm not sure that all of the best UI choices have been made, but I am 
sure that they have been made thoughtfully - and I'm less inclined to think I know how to do it "better".

Kind regards,
John

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