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Article #24416Re: middle-of-the-page titles in FullWrite
From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1988 21:00
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1988 21:00
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In article <6618@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> csaron@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Aron Roberts) writes:
>According to a conversation between an engineer from a large corporate
>customer (a beta site?) and an member of the development team at Ann Arbor
>Softworks, overheard during the crush and pandemonium of MacWorld Expo :-),
>one desktop publishing-like function that FullWrite Professional will NOT
>easily do is to place a full-width title across a page in the middle of
>text columns, as in the following illustration:
>
> xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx <- Continuation of article from previous page
> xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
> Full-width Title
> xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx <- New article
> xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
>
>One can "fake" this effect by using a sidebar to hold the text columns at
>the top of the page, but then text from the previous page cannot flow into
>the area occupied by the sidebar.
However, if the sidebar is a floating sidebar, than it will toddle around
with the text; that should do the job admirably. Unless I'm missing what
you wanted to do?
Absolutely right about the hardware requirements for FW; and my worries are
for nought -- the manuals say that Word 1.05 files will be readable when
FullWrite is released.
"General, a machine becomes human
when you can't tell the difference."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: middle-of-the-page titles in FullWrite Message-ID: <2722@fluke.COM> Date: 24 Jan 88 21:00:25 GMT References: <39102@sun.uucp> <2679@fluke.COM> <6618@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 34