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

On 06/02/07, Shai Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I think that Shmuel wants OO to detect automatically the sizes of all
the frames, so the relevant commentary remains on the same page.

Come to think of it, i always wondered - how did the Jewish
typesetters in Lithuania over hundred years ago did it so perfectly
without any computers.

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