Brian Barker wrote:
At 08:02 05/12/2008 -0800, Elchanan Noname wrote:
We are writing a book with portrait orientation. We wish to include,
on selected pages, full-page tables in landscape orientation. We wish
for the headers. footers, and pagination on these pages to retain its
"normal" portrait orientation.
We know how to work with headers and footers in general, and we know
how to create a pair of left/right landscape page styles, in and of
themselves. What we do not yet know is how to create the landscape
page style AND retain or superimpose the portrait orientation in the
headers/footers.
I don't think that you can do this - at least, not in the way that you
suggest. The position of the header and footer appears - not
surprisingly - to depend directly on the page orientation. So if you
give selected pages the landscape orientation, you will necessarily move
the header and footer in a way that you don't want.
The solution, then, starts with keeping all your pages with portrait
orientation. You then need to present your information in a landscape
table, and this should be easy. Create a table with the numbers of rows
and columns exchanged from what you actually need. Insert the material
into the table cells. Select the text and go to Format | Character... |
Position | Rotation / scaling (or right-click | Character... | Position
| Rotation / scaling), and select an appropriate value - probably 90
degrees. Your material will then appear in landscape orientation even
though Writer sees the page as in portrait orientation.
I just did some experimenting. He can create a landscape page without
header/footer, as described in the help under landscape and portrait.
However, if he wants a portrait header on a landscape page, then he'll
have to create a frame to hold the landscape stuff and change the text
direction, so that it flows down the page, starting from the right side.
To do this, open the frame properties to the Options tab. On that
panel, near the bottom, is a "Text Direction" drop down box. Choose
the desired orientation. You can insert tables and they will follow the
selected orientation. I don't see a method of doing it so that the text
flows up from the bottom left corner though.
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