oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) (10/21/90)
I think what you are looking for ( and I may be misinterpreting this) is the paragraph position feature. This is only available to defined styles. (I sent someone email that I thought this could be done through a simple Format-Paragraph, but it can not) If you select Format-Define_Styles, you get a dialog box that has a button called position. This allows you to specify the vertical and horizontal positions of the paragraph relative to the margin, page or column. I think you should look at this feature and RTM about it. One thing you will have to do is set this up in advance for your forms, but since this is a repetitve task you would have wanted to do this anyway. Each entry field on your preprinted forms will have to have a style defined for it do that the unique position can be set. The nice thing is that once you set up your style sheet, you won't have to play with it again. You could even write a macro that would ask for the field information and assign it the correct style and then automatically print it and save it. Or you could use the "fill-in" field feature and just open a new doc with that style sheet, choose File-Print with the update fields option selected and before it is printed you will be prompted to fill in the fields. Then it will print it and you can save it. These are really neat features. Let me know how you fair. Richard. -- Computer Science Center Richard Oppenheimer University of Maryland oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (office) College Park, Maryland ,USA richard@wam.umd.edu (home) ****** My employer cares not what I think and knows not what I say. ********
strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) (10/26/90)
oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) writes: >I think what you are looking for ( and I may be misinterpreting this) is the >paragraph position feature. This is only available to defined styles. No, I am looking for how to avoid that all my text which is not nailed to a fixed position with the paragraph position feature, i.e. which has the standard positioning attributes, floats and covers all the space on the page which is between the margins and which isn't covered by the positioned elements, already. I already reported my failed attempt to work around this (by covering free space on the page where I don't want my floating text to float in with empty, positioned paragraps), in my message you are refering to. At least in the WfW-version I am using (i.e. 1.0 German) this does not work reliable, because of the undefined order of how WfW repaints overlapping, stacked paragraphs. Sometimes the empty placeholder paragraph overpaints the paragraph which has the text content, some times it doesn't. WfW 1.1 seems to be available in the US already. Does it have the same bug? > (short description of how to find the "Format Position" command omitted) >I think you should look at this feature and RTM about it. One thing you will The only thing my FM tells me is "as soon as you have positioned an element, all text which is not positioned will be placed around the positioned elements" (sorry for the ugly translation). This is not what I want. I want my text to be placed around the positioned elements, BUT I WANT IT TO START AT A CERTAIN POSITION, NOT AT THE FIRST FREE SPACE ON THE PAGE. I want to start the body text of my letter template at a fixed position, float around pictures, continue on the next page. I don't want the position of the letter text depend on the number of lines somebody types into the address field. I *do* want to place something on the right of the address field, but I don't want the letter text go there. I haven't found a way to do that. Do you? Wolfgang Strobl #include <std.disclaimer.hpp>