I’m not sure which program is handling borders correctly (.odt), I just want to know if there’s an easy way to get Writer to add borders in the margin, outside the text body itself… Word behaves this way and at the moment I prefer being able to add a border in the margin space without cutting into space reserved for text…
Please let me know,
thanks,
semiotically
Did you use Format → Page → Borders to get the borders? Since for me it works just like you hope it would.
Even if it didn’t it would be just simple math of adding and subtracting to get the position right.
sorry not the page borders (I think these behave “like you hope”), the paragraph/ text borders… they indent… maybe this is just he way of Writer…period…
sorry not the page borders (I think these behave “like you hope”), the paragraph/ text borders… they indent… maybe this is just he way of Writer…period…
@semiotically - You can use negative “before”, “after” margin values to place paragraph lines outside the text area.
hi @mahfiaz I think that works (under the ‘indents and spacing tabs,’ for others reading this), thanks… I just tried once: if the margins ~1.5cm can you think why the maximum indent (negative) is ~-0.2cm… (the positive indents go higher)…?
@semiotically, I have 2 cm margin on page and -2 cm indent worked just fine. If you show your document, then maybe we could tell why. Maybe you mix dots and commas for decimal seprarators.
It sounds from the description that what is required is something like this:
I achieved this by creating a new paragraph style with these attributes:
-18.0pt.18.0pt (although given the line width of 0.05pt this value should probably be 17.95pt).It is possible that MS Office will interpret the indent incorrectly in certain contexts (i.e., where tab characters are used), although this would need to be examined on a case-by-case basis.