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Specifically, what the user wants is the ability to have different column counts in one frame, or text that spans multiple columns in a frame. They want to be able to control this with styles so that as text reflows, the column count transition also moves. I can see some definite uses for this, and in fact see things like this done in newspapers and magazines a lot. At my work we do this by hand, like one has to in Sribus at the moment, meaning that manual layout adjustment is required whenever text reflows. One way to implement this might be a column span facility in the layout engine, with the ability to set an n-column span for a region of text, where n >= 1 and 0 would mean "span all columns no matter how many there are". This functionality can be emulated with more manual work using linked text frames and/or overlaid frames with text-flows-around-frame... but for usability and efficient workflow it'd be very nice to support. Especially as we slowly move into more dynamic content, larger bodies of text, and more support for externally sourced content. |
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Reminder sent to: avox Any idea if this feature is feasable with your new text system work? |
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We already had a discussion about this in another bug IIRC. My current idea is to a) allow inline frames to span columns (and in fact any space at all) b) provide a "column-flush" controlcharacter which will balance columns for preceding text before continuing to fill the frame. That would allow a scheme like: A D B E C <columnflush> <inline frame for headline spanning all columns> F I G J H K <endofframe> But that's just ideas yet, I'm still open for suggestions. |
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I still wonder if the headline issue couldn't be solved with enhanced table features. To a - very limited - degree this is already possible. See screenshot. |
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The drawback of the tables is a physical segmentation of the text in cells. The size of the cell will not be extended automatically if more text is added. For this reason, I still beleave it would be a nice feature to add a property "span" to the paragraph type. By default, span is set to false, but if you set it to true, the paragraph will be printed through all the columns. Eg: Title 1. <- span Introduction <- span aaa ccc eee bbb ddd fff Title 2. <- span ggg iii kkk hhh jjj lll |
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frames will have advanced autosize options. the following autosize options are planed: * fixed (that's the current default) * size to fixed width * size to fixed height * size to shape (h/w ratio) additional for inline frames: * size to % of column/cell width * size to % of frame width |
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Nice. |
- Anonymous
