[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 89477] Images and objects should have an option "Anchor to page (moves with page)" to deal with page breaks

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Sun Jan 13 10:06:45 UTC 2019


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89477

--- Comment #7 from Jose <joruru201008 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to RGB from comment #5)
> [Copying a comment from Bug 117329]
> 
> ------
> 
> Just to make things clear, a quick and oversimplified review of what LaTeX
> does by default (users can change those settings) with its "floats," either
> figure or table, always considering the insertion point as reference:
> 
>   1. If there is space, figure is moved to the top of the page text area
> 
>   2. If there is no space on top, figure is moved to the bottom of the text
> area
> 
>   3. If still there is no place, figure is moved to the following page
> 
>   4. If *still* there is no place, figure gets its own page, as close as
> possible to the insertion point
> 
> The probability of getting two pictures superpose is exactly zero in LaTeX,
> and they will never cover footnotes.
> 
> All this is performed automatically by LaTeX every time the document is
> compiled.
> 
> In Writer you can set the frame positioning to be on top or bottom of the
> text area, even in the frame style, but there is a high risk of two pictures
> going one on top of the other or accidentally covering footnotes, so you
> need to do the positioning by hand for each frame, and then move anchor
> points of those frames to avoid "holes" at the end of page when the
> paragraph to which the frame is anchored moves to the next page.

Is there a way to crow funding this option? I mean, I really want this to be
implemented and for sure many other people will want. How can we 'sponsor' this
incoming feature?

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