I need landscape for tables of 15 wide cols. by 10 rows, so text in those 2 files are also in landscape (which is not a problem). The first file had been all text, in portrait. I figured that the OMD was picking up portrait from it and using it on rest, but it didn’t change when the first file was made landscape. I’ve deleted that OMD, changed all the other files to portrait, but don’t know if a new OMD will accept landscape. Shouldn’t it though? If it will, there is still a geometric drawing that is in portrait, and I don’t see that Draw offers a portrait option. (Neither the Writer 6, nor the Draw 4.3 Guide has an index, so searching isn’t easy.) Thanks.
(Neither the Writer 6, nor the Draw 4.3 Guide has an index, so searching isn’t easy.)
LibreOffice is a project that is supported to a very large extent by volunteers.
You are welcome to participate, for example, in the creation of the documentation.
We would all be very pleased.
Your description doesn’t contain enough information. How do you format your master and sub-documents? With master+subs, styling is a requirement, all the more if you mix portrait and landscape pages.
Most problems with master+subs come from the presence of direct formatting and from an inconsistent use of styles (the style in the master takes precedence over the same name style in the sub-document - this is a valuable feature when properly used).
As always, mention you OS name and LO version.
Both portrait and landscape, are created by the page styles in conjunction with manual page break. You know that.
Between master document and sub-documents, there is clear rule which styles will take effect. See:
Master documents in Writer
Thank you. I got three responces on 4/16, not just one. The other two were from ‘ajlittoz’, as far as I can tell. I tried to respond from my E-mail account. That doesn’t work. (I guess it would not have showed up here that way.)
I’m sorry for this delayed response: I had to revise text before I could go back to the format questions. I think I have come up with a solution to my problem, although it is not an elegant one.
Firstly, all of the text files were converted to landscape; since the wide tables in files with tables and text got truncated when I tried to put them in a portrait format.
Secondly, I just strung all of the text files together in one file, in an attempt to avoid any troubles learning the proper use of a Master Document.
Thirdly, I redid the diagram in Draw, but only used the top 7 inches of the page. I added a page break in the text file where I wanted to put the diagram. Then ‘mirabile dictu’, when I inserted the Draw file at that point, the diagram appeared on the left side of the landscape page. (Those were tears of joy, not sorrow, over the lost bottom 4 inches of the portrait page the diagram had been on.)
Fourthly, I printed it out, and it looks normal.
If I had studied Draw some more, I might have found out how to set up a diagram in landscape; allowing for a image wider than 7 inches. However, I have spent so much time on editing the text over and over that I just want to wrap this up as easily as possible. A new bigger problem has arisen outside of L.O.: I haven’t found a geometer to endorse the paper. I was lucky that two even responded at all.
On the plus side, I can send out the entire paper as one .pdf file if i can get some good E-mail addresses. [Geometers, Algebraicists, Number theorists, and other math professors, just send me your E-mail address for the .pdf (which prints out in only 19 pages.)
The last ditch alternative is to mail out paper copies to Mathematics Department secretaries!
As to getting involved, I will never have time to become very good at Writer or Draw. I hope my paper will be well received by a few good mathematicians. That would be my donation to the public.
If I knew that there was a revision committee, I be happy to mention things that might be worth their consideration. For example, why is a table limited to 15 rows? Even in landscape, I might have been able to fit 20 in. For that matter, why only 10 columns? While my 10 wide columns filled the landscape format, others might need up to 20 narrow columns. Whatever the number, I think the same number of rows and columns, even if only 18 – even 15 – would prove useful. [A “Go” player/author might urge a minimum of 19.]
I’d also ask about my Draw copy defaulting to blue for the color. That ruined my earlier diagrams. Even in black standard arcs do not show up well. Blue is an especially bad color. Isn’t it the color used to make editing marks, just because it does not copy. Furthermore, color is the most easily relinquished attribute on these cheap color printers with tiny, expensive ink bottles. I think ink sales motivate a certain company to almost give away their cheaper printers.
I struggled with making arcs in Draw by inscribing them in rectangles, but I know this is a common approach for now. I would like to be able to pick a center and a radius and be done with it. That is how it has been done for thousands of years. [I did finally figure out how to trick the grid into approximating the squareroot of two: divide an inch in two, and then subdivide each half inch into 7 parts. One whole inch and seven parts would also work: 1&3/7 = 1.42857… sqrt(2) = 1.414; which isn’t as good as 693/490, but those numbers would make the grid a gray mist.
Thanks again for the help you give, even when users like myself are a bit lazy. (Also some of my problems may have been from my guides being for older versions. Definitely, some things did not act as in the step-by-step instructions.)
Best wishes,
Lem C.