The screenshot above shows all the attributes that can be set on this tab. For example, if the frame takes only a fraction of the page width it is possible to set the text to surround it: the option "Optimal" will be the more appropriate in this situation. Here it is possible to define how the text and other content flow around the frame.
The option "Follow text flow" is useful to avoid the possibility of a frame going outside the limits of the text area on the page.Īs shown above, the Options tab allows the setting of various options for the frame. For example, if we choose "Outside" will be positioned to the right on odd pages and to the left on even pages. The mirror option will automatically change the frame position when we are on an odd or even page. Two important options are "Mirror on even/odd pages" and "Follow text flow". The available options will depend upon the selected anchoring: for example, selecting "As character" we lose the horizontal position options. On the lower part of this tab the position options are found. This is the default option for frames associated with Math objects. As character: the frame will move inside the text as if it were another character.To character: similar to the previous option, but considering the exact point inside the paragraph where the image was inserted.
The picture will follow the paragraph in which it was inserted. It is important to be careful with this option because the picture will remain on that page even if all the previous pages are empty. To page: this associates the frame with the page on which it was inserted.This option selects how the frame will be positioned from a reference point, that is the point at which the frame was inserted: On the top right it is possible to choose the "Anchoring". "Keep ratio" forces width and height of the frame to grow proportionally."Automatic" (for Width) and "AutoSize" (for height) makes the frame grow with the content."Relative" means "Relative to the text area".On the top left of this tab it is possible to define the Frame size. The purpose of the individual tabs will be discussed in the following sections. The sceenshot below shows the result of the menu command Insert → Frame. When a caption is added to a picture, this picture, which is already inside a frame, will be automatically included on another frame that enclose the paragraph with the automatic numbering. even other frames.įrames are used extensively in Writer: each inserted picture, OLE object (Math objects, charts.), are inside a frame. Frames accept any kind of content: text pictures tables. Basically, a frame is a small "floating page" on top of a real page. Frames in Writer are similar to LaTeX "minipages".