Roger a ?crit : > I dont understand the discussion about multi columns and spacings. > It seems to me that trying to do things in one text box increases the > associated problems as has > been discussed. > > I have as many columns and rows of any dimension that I need simply by using > empty text boxes as > recepticals and spacers, with set dimensions and xyz positioning. > Then just link text in receptical boxes where I want flow to occur. Am I > doing something incorrectly. > > What is the reason that text boxes aren't suitable to provide the appropriate > columns, rows and > spacings in the discussion thread. > > help appreciated
Hi Roger, Discussions like this one always come down to effectiveness or productivity. The less you have to do to achieve your layout, the less time it takes. Drawing, manipulating, resizing, placing any object on the page take an amount of time. When you multiply the objects, you multiply the time. When you then change your mind and have to re-edit, you can suddenly discover that it would have been easier if things have been done another way. For this reason, a multicolumn text frame is better than a monocolumn text frame, imo. But I agree we can do without. It is always possible to make a text frame, duplicate it with the proper settings and link it. On the other hand, with a multicolumn text frame you draw this frame once and go to Properties for selecting just how many columns you wish and what gap in between those columns and you're done. It works both ways. Each of the users can figure what works best for them. If, for instance, you have to resize the columns for any reason, you'll have one frame or many frames to resize depending on how you did your layout. If you change your mind and want 3 columns instead of 4, it's a breeze to change a multicolumn text frame and it will definitely take more time with single columns linked together. Now, is it possible, feasible or wishable to do with rows what we do with columns? Typically, a text frame doesn't have rows. It has columns. If we want rows, we need to make a table. But wouldn't it be a good idea to add to the text frame possibility the rows with gap, what we could call a horizontal column? You'd then be able to have a layout with different column width as we were discussing in the previous post. To me, the idea is good enough to investigate further, find out the pros and cons and see how it turns out. If the solution turns out to be clumsy, then it's not worth coding. If we find, with real-case scenarios, we can save time layouting this kind of pages (which is not that seldom), then we have a strong feature on-board. Let's see what others think about it. I hope this helps, Louis > Roger > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com
