mike scott wrote:
I understand how to control widowed and orphaned lines when the text is
free-flowing within a paragraph, with line ends determined by OOo.
However, I'm producing a song-book where end-of-line control is
necessarily mine, not automatic.
I'm having trouble finding a satisfactory way of preventing song
titles, single/double lines of verses, and 'chorus' and other labels
from appearing alone at start or end of page.
If I end a line with a simple 'return', that's means each line is a new
paragraph for OOo, and the widow and orphan control doesn't apply (at
least not in any useful way). If I use shift-return, OOo treats the
whole such as a unit, and refuses to split at all across page
boundaries.
The only way I can see at present is to manually format the whole lot
with return, shift-return and 'keep with next para'; but obviously
changes to the text are then a nightmare!
I assume someone, somewhere must have met this already - is there
something obvious I'm missing please? Or are there any other thoughts
on laying out verse so page splits behave reasonably?
The method that Ross mentions will work, but */I/* wouldn't do it that
way. I would set up a style, say 'verse_line' which has 'keep with next'
set, and then another style, say 'verse_end' which is identical, except
'keep with next' is not set.. Then, at the end of each section of verse,
chorus or whatever, apply the the 'verse_end' style. Since this is the
same as 'verse_line', you should get the next paragraph as 'verse_line'.
So a good idea, might be to associate 'verse_end' with a key-stroke
combination. If you want different formating with verses and choruses,
then create another pair of styles for the chorus. I hope this helps to
give some ideas for your formatting.
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With best regards, Derek Carr,
Birmingham, UK
http://alldruid.co.uk/
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