Fw: openoffice writer guide 2.0 (column)

[sajjad sheikh <sa...@outlook.com>]

don't you guys think hes wrong?
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From: Keith N. McKenna <ke...@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 11:33:38 AM
To: doc@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide 2.0 (column)

sajjad sheikh wrote:
> Basically i am asking is that after filling first line of second
> column, won't that first line of second column move to first column
> as its second line and writer will start filling first line of second
> column again till both lines of second column are filled?

Sajjad;

No. When the first line on the second column fills, text will flow to
the second line of the first column then from there to the second line
of the second column, ad infinitum.

Also please ply only to the list and not to my personal account.

Regards
Keith


> From: Keith N. McKenna
> <ke...@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:59
> AM To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide
> 2.0 (column)
>
> sajjad sheikh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> can anybody please explain the explanation which is given in the
>> writer guide about "equally distribute contents to all columns" in
>> columns of section in which it states in distributing text evenly
>> "the writer fills first lines of each column followed by second
>> lines of each column and so on". this description is hell
>> confusing.
>>
> Sajjad;
>
>
> The explanation is fairly simple. When the box to equally distribute
> cont is checked it does just that. Rather than a newspaper style
> column arrangement where text flows to fill the first column then
> fills the second column, text flows between columns such that when
> the first line of the first column is full the text flows to the
> first line of the second column and so on.
>
> I hope the explanation is clear if not perhaps this link to the new
> version 4 guide will help.
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Page#Columns_tab_2
>
>  Regards Keith
>



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Re: Fw: openoffice writer guide 2.0 (column)

[Martin Groenescheij <Ma...@Groenescheij.COM>]

On 13-Feb-16 12:22, sajjad sheikh wrote:
> don't you guys think hes wrong?

First you send a question about the writer guide to the user group on 
Feb 9^th I asked for chapter / page
reference and got an answer from Rory.
In a further communication with the documentation group (Feb 12^th ) you 
didn't copy the user group.
Unhappy with the answer from Keith you try to involve the user group again.

Both answers from Rory and Keith are correct. The reason I asked the 
chapter / page numbers is the
way columns are filled depend on how and where you define the columns. 
If you define column settings
at the page format settings it works differently as when you define 
columns in a frame or section where
you have the option to balance the columns.

So to answer your question is he is wrong is no, basically your question 
was not clear.
Your question to the user group had no reference to a writer guide.
Your question to the documentation group had a reference to the 2.0 
writer guide.
So how do you expect that you get a clear answer?

> ________________________________________
> From: Keith N. McKenna <ke...@comcast.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 11:33:38 AM
> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide 2.0 (column)
>
> sajjad sheikh wrote:
>> Basically i am asking is that after filling first line of second
>> column, won't that first line of second column move to first column
>> as its second line and writer will start filling first line of second
>> column again till both lines of second column are filled?
> Sajjad;
>
> No. When the first line on the second column fills, text will flow to
> the second line of the first column then from there to the second line
> of the second column, ad infinitum.
>
> Also please ply only to the list and not to my personal account.
>
> Regards
> Keith
>
>
>> From: Keith N. McKenna
>> <ke...@comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:59
>> AM To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: openoffice writer guide
>> 2.0 (column)
>>
>> sajjad sheikh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can anybody please explain the explanation which is given in the
>>> writer guide about "equally distribute contents to all columns" in
>>> columns of section in which it states in distributing text evenly
>>> "the writer fills first lines of each column followed by second
>>> lines of each column and so on". this description is hell
>>> confusing.
>>>
>> Sajjad;
>>
>>
>> The explanation is fairly simple. When the box to equally distribute
>> cont is checked it does just that. Rather than a newspaper style
>> column arrangement where text flows to fill the first column then
>> fills the second column, text flows between columns such that when
>> the first line of the first column is full the text flows to the
>> first line of the second column and so on.
>>
>> I hope the explanation is clear if not perhaps this link to the new
>> version 4 guide will help.
>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Writer/Page#Columns_tab_2
>>
>>   Regards Keith
>>
>
>
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