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Tak To wrote:
> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
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> > Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:21:29 -0400: Tak To <takto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in
> > sci.lang:
> >
> >
> >>>>If you have split and merged cells and
> >>>>with dimension constraints the result is in my experience totally
> >>>>unpredictable.
> >>>
> >>>How can it be unpredictable if it;s Wysiwig?
> >>
> >>Unpredictable in the sense that one (at least for me) cannot
> >>predict which of the dimension constraints/autoamtic calculations
> >>will take precedence when one makes a small change.
> >
> > My tables don't have dimension constraints or automatic calculations.
> > I just get the dimensions I enter in "cell height and width" etc. or
> > that I set using the mouse.
>
> You don't even let Word adjust row height?
>
> > Perhaps the problem is you start from the Table Gallery, and I start
> > from Insert Table?
>
> No, I use Insert Table as well. As I said before, I use
> tables to do complicated layout and have to merge and split
> cells, add and delete rows/columns all the time as I try to
> fit as many things as possible in a limited amount of space.
> For an example of the complexity involved, see
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~takto/misc/tianjiu.doc
>
> Most probably you don't have the Chinese fonts I use in the
> document but you can see the result pdf file in
>
> home.comcast.net/~takto/misc/tianjiu.pdf">http://home.comcast.net/~takto/misc/tianjiu.pdf
You did all that with Word tables!?!? Wow! Are the dominoes graphics,
or are they type?
You might look into FrameMaker -- you can get much finer positioning
control.
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