Re: [OOo-Hebrew] A challenge - can OO do this?

On Tuesday, February 6 2007 16:45, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> On 06/02/07, Shmuel Himelstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> > One thing I'd like to be able to do with OO is to design a "Mikra'ot
> > Gedolot" format, where the text is on the top and a few commentators are
> > underneath it, and where the program figures out how to space everything
> > from one page to the next. Does that sound impossible? Or is there some
> > way to get into the guts" of OO and to modify it to do this?
>
> "Mikra'ot Gedolot" format requires, among other things, a very
> complicated typesetting mechanism with non-rectangular tables.
>
If I understand correctly, the "frames" feature of KWord should be enough for 
you. I would be somewhat surprised if it turned out that you can't set a body 
of text in a square somewhere on the page and have other pieces of text flow 
around it, either in MS Word or OO Writer.

Have fun,
	Shai.
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