On Thursday 06 April 2006 13:32, Louis Desjardins wrote: > No! Sorry I was not clear enough. I mean moving the Column field from > the Shape tab to the Text tab like it is suggested. There is no point > doing that unless you carry at least the Gap field ... and then you have > to think about the Text inset field and what do you do with them! And > yes, I agree you can put a zero value in the Gab field. But that is not > the main discussion! :-)
Oh yeah, well, sure! If one moves the other must too. Zero was a pun. ;) > So this mean we could have text outside a text frame or at least control > the flow (including the number of columns and indents and all that's > paragraph related) independently than the text frame? This would be > something to dig in. I have never thought of it like that but why not?! Yeah I got the idea from working with CSS stylesheets basically. I would not use the same approach though as it's not powerful enough but I thought I'd get it in the discussion for consideration (for seeing further in the text engine redesign). > Understand. But isn't that a very different way to handle text than it > is right now? Well, yes and no. We don't currently have a distinction between both, but as the text engine is getting remade better create the most powerful system as possible. > All this sounds interesting in theory. I would like to have a real-case > scenario to get the full taste of this approach. Indeed. > Louis Pierre-Luc
