On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:50:31 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 07:37 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > This has been discussed before I am sure, but > > I can't find the magic formula. I want text > > to flow around another text frame. I got that > > to work. But T want a little offset so that > > when the text flows it doesn't run up right > > next to the other frame. Step by step what do > > I need to do? > > > There are two approaches, and you may want to > use a bit of both. > > The first, as mentioned is to simply set the > "Distances" for the frame that inside or being > flowed around. This can be problematic if the > frame is small, and be quite ugly. > > The other is to decide what you flow around. > The default of course is the frame, but you can > choose to flow around the contour line, which > is under Shape > Text Flows Around Frame > Use > Contour Line. > > Then, edit the frame (again under Shape), and > check Edit Contour Line. Note that amongst the > buttons are a couple which expand the Contour > Line by a certain percentage all around or a > certain number of points all around. > > Greg > > > I left out some important details. In this project in order to match previous work the inserted text frame has a light gray background and rounded corners. Also my shaky old hands won't allow me to manipulate a contour line with any success. So I took a different path entirely. For each such frame I drew a slightly larger text frame over the top of the existing one. I set it to have text flow around it. Then I went to the Item menu. selected "level", and lowered the blank frame in relation with the real text frame. It works and it is not too difficult. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
