Bringing multi-page floating tables to ODF

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Miklos,

Miklos Vajna schrieb am 19.07.2023 um 08:26:
> Hi Regina,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:18:53PM +0200, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
>> I see an additional problem with this new feature:
>> The text which wraps around the table leaves a large gap on the first page,
>> when the table increases so that it extends to the second page. I see, that
>> Word has this strange behavior. I have only found [*]. The answer there is a
>> workaround, only suitable in a final layout.
>> I'm afraid users will also complain to us that the text doesn't stay on the
>> first page. I consider the layout in Word as bug in Word.
>>
>> [*] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/text-wrapping-around-a-tabe-in-word/eb6fa861-7c3e-4765-9405-f247f03781d3
> 
> Reading <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61594#c33>,
> there is an allowTextAfterFloatingTableBreak compat flag on the Word
> side that would allow wrapping on all pages. At the moment Writer layout
> assumes that this flag is off all the time. I don't see UI in Word to
> enable this flag, but if I edit a DOCX file by hand, then it indeed
> seems to do what you want.

Indeed, that works in Word.

Given that, I suggest to not use a boolean attribute in ODF, but use an 
attribute with keyword values, so that all three ways can be 
represented. This does not mean, that all three values need to be 
implemented in LibreOffice immediately. But when there is some time 
later on, the missing mode can be implemented without change to ODF.

Kind regards,
Regina