[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 130273] When I replicate (i.e., copy-paste) a captioned image from text body to the page header, the original wrapping is not preserved

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130273

--- Comment #7 from Jambunathan K <kjambunathan at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Justin L from comment #5)
> Text wrapping is intentionally not allowed in headers/footers in order to
> enhance compatibility with MS Office.  See bug 39155.
> 
> The ability to wrap in headers/footers is a compatibility option.  (Options
> - Writer - compatibility -  and enable "Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping
> around objects". I tested that and it worked with your sample document.

Ok. Thanks. I am now seeing that the  text is wrapped around header image.

I would appreciate if you could consider improving documentation as a part of
resolving this bug.

1. The contextual Help for 'Wrap' (i.e.,
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/swriter/01/05060200.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=UNIX)
MUST link to the 'Compatibility' node, and specifically mention that wrapping
behaviour on 


2. The 'Compatibility' (i.e.,
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/shared/optionen/01041000.html?DbPAR=SHARED#bm_id3577990)
says   

> To access this command...
> Open a text document, choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - > Compatibility.
> Some of the settings defined here are only valid for the current document and must be defined separately for each document.

The node should tell clearly which of the options are per-document options.  I
confirm that the ""Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping around objects" is a
per-document option.  The 'settings.xml' now has 

```
<config:config-item-set config:name="ooo:configuration-settings">
   <config:config-item config:name="UseFormerTextWrapping"
config:type="boolean">true</config:config-item>
</config:config-item-set>
```


> Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping around objects

> Microsoft Word and Writer have different approaches on wrapping text around floating screen objects. Floating screen object are Writer frames and drawing objects, and the objects 'text box', 'graphic', 'frame', 'picture' etc. in Microsoft Word.

(IIUC, this is no longer true. As far as wrapping on header text is concerned,
LibreOffice works in "compatible" mode.)

My suggestion .... remove the above paragraph.

> In Microsoft Word and in current versions of Writer, page header/footer content and footnote/endnote content does not wrap around floating screen objects. Text body content wraps around floating screen objects which are anchored in the page header.

This paragraph is very very confusing on some many levels.  

a) "current version" ===>  "current" here means /whenever/ StarOffice 8 or
OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released.  That is "current" refers to some ancient
time.

b) The first sentence says "does NOT wrap" and the second sentence says
"wraps".     This is confusing.  The second sentences also seems to suggest
that besides various anchor points like character, paragraph, frame etc. there
is one more anchor point called "page header".  When I invoke the UI for
object's anchor there really is no way to "anchor to page header".

(This paragraph has to moved / copied to the 'Wrap' help node)  

I suggest the following re-wording ...

By default, the page header/footer content and footnote/endnote
content does not wrap around floating screen objects.  This behaviour
is same as how Microsoft Word treats these objects.  In order to wrap
text around floating screen objects, in header/footer or
footnote/endnote turn on "Use OpenOffice.org 1.1 text wrapping around
objects"



> In Writer versions prior to StarOffice 8 or OpenOffice.org 2.0, the opposite was true.
> If the option is off, which is the default setting, the new text wrapping will be applied. If the option is on, the former text wrapping will be applied. 

(This may be of interest to LibreOffice developers.   This is of no interest to
 "current" users of LibreOffice)

My suggestion ... Remove this paragraph.

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