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Re: Hanging side heads in VB

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From: Mike_Mepham
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:52
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Kenneth,

The subject was covered by Olav Kvern in a correspondence with me about a year back. His answer was to use tables, which I did for a few weeks. However, that solution is almost unusable unless you are thinking about very short documents. The problem is not that it doesn't work, but that it is extremely slow and cumbersome. Not only that but tables that span pages cause extreme problems with layout over a few hundred pages.

The answer is, of course, the ability to use zero leading on any style (you just indent the style following the side head). However, if I ever mention such a thing I'm treated like some kind of typographic barbarian. This small feature would also provide a solution for bulleted and numbered pars.

But I've only been doing this stuff for 35 years, so what the hell do I know? I gave up asking... Sorry, Ole.

Best of luck.

Mike

ps If you can't find it, I'll dig it out for you, for what it's worth.
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