moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (01/25/88)
In article <6618@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> csaron@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Aron Roberts) writes: >According to a conversation between an engineer from a large corporate >customer (a beta site?) and an member of the development team at Ann Arbor >Softworks, overheard during the crush and pandemonium of MacWorld Expo :-), >one desktop publishing-like function that FullWrite Professional will NOT >easily do is to place a full-width title across a page in the middle of >text columns, as in the following illustration: > > xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx <- Continuation of article from previous page > xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx > Full-width Title > xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx <- New article > xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx > >One can "fake" this effect by using a sidebar to hold the text columns at >the top of the page, but then text from the previous page cannot flow into >the area occupied by the sidebar. However, if the sidebar is a floating sidebar, than it will toddle around with the text; that should do the job admirably. Unless I'm missing what you wanted to do? Absolutely right about the hardware requirements for FW; and my worries are for nought -- the manuals say that Word 1.05 files will be readable when FullWrite is released. "General, a machine becomes human when you can't tell the difference." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>