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List:       koffice
Subject:    order of frames in a frameset- not to be controlled by the user?
From:       timm danker <danker () uni-muenster ! de>
Date:       2000-05-31 14:41:20
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I´m new to this list, so please forgive me if this already has been
discussed. 

Testing Koffice, it appears to me that in a set of textframes, I cannot
control in which frame the text actually starts. What I want to do is:

PPPP TTTTT
PPPP TTTTT
PPPP TTTTT
tttttttttt
tttttttttt
tttttttttt

where P is a Picture, T and t are connected Textframes (the Frameset).
Now, I cannot make the Text start in T, whatever I do, it always starts
in t. Precise, If I move the frames around a bit, I see that the text
always starts in the frame that is more left. Is this intended to be
kind of automatic? Actually, it prevents doing the one or other cool
page design... Or do I just miss the point how to do it?

Aside: I wanted these 3 Frames embedded in the middle of a DTP-Type Page
with two-column layout. In such a design, it is in this case (and many
other) not possible to obtain the desired effekt by setting the property
of the textframe to "run around the border of other frames". I can go
into more detail about this if neccessary. However, If one could assign
a property to the picture-frame, that says kind of  "text frames should
make their text run around me", this would allow much more flexibility.
I understand that this might be harder to code than what seems to be
there , but...

I´m sorry that I cannot contribute more than these thoughts and no code
:-(. Hope that it will be helpfull in some sense!

Timm

PS: (regarding KDE1.90 and especially Koffice) Wow! *really* cool stuff
:-) !

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