On Monday 17 September 2007 12:32:20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software
Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> OpenOffice.org's interpretation of style:flow-with-text is the following:
> - style:flow-with-text = true means, that the object flows with the text
> respectively follows the text flow of its layout environment. It stays
> inside its layout environment and if needed due to its position it flows
> into the next corresponding layout environment - e.g. for layout
> environment page's text area. If no next corresponding layout
> environment exists, typical for page header/footer area, the object is
> captured inside its layout environment.
> There are same exceptions and special behaviors, which can be found in
> the attached OpenOffice.org specification.
I'm not convinced that we need a different (auto defined) behavior of
capturing (or clipping is what we call it in KOffice) the embedded object for
the different containers.
For example;
If I have a table of items and I add a bright yellow graphic with the
text "TIP" as an anchored frame to the text in row 4 then I can totally see
that the user would want to make the graphic be left-aligned to the page
margin, and thus be positioned outside the table itself.
In other words; if you want to have some way to 'capture' the embedded item
inside its layout environment, I suggest you make a proposal that adds a
property to specify the capturing behavior of that anchor. I'd also like to
call it "clipping" as thats the technical term used in graphics for this
behavior.
Something like adding this to the embedded object; "clip-to-parent=" With
values like "None", "Table Cell", "Text Area", "Page"
Cheers
--
Thomas Zander
