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Subject: Re: [office-comment] RFE: Vertical justification
Hi Leonard, On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 19:58 +0300, Leonard Mada wrote: > - beautifully seen when 2 columns are compared, > and the lines in the second column are shifted away > from the corresponding lines in the first column That's actually a really good point that I didn't raise in my original e-mail - vertical justification in columns is also really useful. The Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases that you pointed to uses exactly that, and it shows how this layout is ideally used: I downloaded the PDF of "Prospective Study of Sputum Induction", and on page 5 you can see a dual column layout with inserted graphic, the figure text in a sans-serif font, and the main text in a serif font. The columns are beautifully aligned, simply by tuning the leading. On the last page, you can also see that columns can be aligned at the bottom, so that the white space occupies the bottom of the page, rather than the right side of the page. Having this feature interact with columns in those ways would be an excellent advance also. That last feature in particular cannot be replicated in an automatic fashion with OpenDocument in any way; you'd have to break the column manually in the right place, and the next time the document is paginated differently, the break could be wrong. Thanks, Alex.
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