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From: Michael Soibelman on 2 Apr 2008 20:48
O.K. I'm a bit rusty with html so I'll blame it on 'brain-fade-syndrome'.
I started an html page in Writer and inserted a table. Formatted it to
take up 30% of page horizontally. Now I want to type words in the 70% of
the remaining space to the right of the table so I went to 'Table
Properties' -> Text Flow and all the selections buttons are grayed out.
What am I doing wrong ??

Thanks...

Using Open Office 2.4.0.5
From: Algazm on 3 Apr 2008 00:51
Michael Soibelman wrote:
> O.K. I'm a bit rusty with html so I'll blame it on 'brain-fade-syndrome'.
> I started an html page in Writer and inserted a table. Formatted it to
> take up 30% of page horizontally. Now I want to type words in the 70% of
> the remaining space to the right of the table so I went to 'Table
> Properties' -> Text Flow and all the selections buttons are grayed out.
> What am I doing wrong ??
>
> Thanks...
>
> Using Open Office 2.4.0.5

I've done some html in the past (not a lot, though), and needed to make
a table that fills the page width, then put two tables inside that. The
left table (inside the big table) had multiple lines, I think I had
links or something. The right table had one line of text, actually more
of a paragraph, but not using the <p> tag. I can't remember how I did it
though, and can't find the html file I wrote way back in time. Sorry I
can't be of much help....
From: Algazm on 3 Apr 2008 01:05
Algazm wrote:
> Michael Soibelman wrote:
>> O.K. I'm a bit rusty with html so I'll blame it on
>> 'brain-fade-syndrome'. I started an html page in Writer and inserted a
>> table. Formatted it to
>> take up 30% of page horizontally. Now I want to type words in the 70% of
>> the remaining space to the right of the table so I went to 'Table
>> Properties' -> Text Flow and all the selections buttons are grayed
>> out. What am I doing wrong ??
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Using Open Office 2.4.0.5
>
> I've done some html in the past (not a lot, though), and needed to make
> a table that fills the page width, then put two tables inside that. The
> left table (inside the big table) had multiple lines, I think I had
> links or something. The right table had one line of text, actually more
> of a paragraph, but not using the <p> tag. I can't remember how I did it
> though, and can't find the html file I wrote way back in time. Sorry I
> can't be of much help....

Forgot something - I did that html with a text editor. I just tried it
in Writer, but it doesn't seems to work the way I tried it... I tried
creating a table with one column, one row, then created two tables
inside that, one with 6 rows, 1 column, and one with 1 column and 1 row
(for just text). When I tried the html file in the web browser, there
was only the 6 row table, and the text for the other one was below the
tables, not on the right. Maybe some other html editor will work? Or a
text editor?
From: Algazm on 3 Apr 2008 01:24
Algazm wrote:
> Algazm wrote:
>> Michael Soibelman wrote:
>>> O.K. I'm a bit rusty with html so I'll blame it on
>>> 'brain-fade-syndrome'. I started an html page in Writer and inserted
>>> a table. Formatted it to
>>> take up 30% of page horizontally. Now I want to type words in the
>>> 70% of
>>> the remaining space to the right of the table so I went to 'Table
>>> Properties' -> Text Flow and all the selections buttons are grayed
>>> out. What am I doing wrong ??
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>
>>> Using Open Office 2.4.0.5
>>
>> I've done some html in the past (not a lot, though), and needed to
>> make a table that fills the page width, then put two tables inside
>> that. The left table (inside the big table) had multiple lines, I
>> think I had links or something. The right table had one line of text,
>> actually more of a paragraph, but not using the <p> tag. I can't
>> remember how I did it though, and can't find the html file I wrote way
>> back in time. Sorry I can't be of much help....
>
> Forgot something - I did that html with a text editor. I just tried it
> in Writer, but it doesn't seems to work the way I tried it... I tried
> creating a table with one column, one row, then created two tables
> inside that, one with 6 rows, 1 column, and one with 1 column and 1 row
> (for just text). When I tried the html file in the web browser, there
> was only the 6 row table, and the text for the other one was below the
> tables, not on the right. Maybe some other html editor will work? Or a
> text editor?

Here's a simple one I figured out, looks like what you're trying to do
(I hope it shows as text here and not as a "web page"...)

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

<table border=1>
<tr>

<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Row 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Row 6</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Here is some text. Add as much text as needed
to fill up the right side.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
From: Michael Soibelman on 3 Apr 2008 14:19
Algazm wrote:

> Algazm wrote:
>> Algazm wrote:
>>> Michael Soibelman wrote:
>>>> O.K. I'm a bit rusty with html so I'll blame it on
>>>> 'brain-fade-syndrome'. I started an html page in Writer and inserted
>>>> a table. Formatted it to
>>>> take up 30% of page horizontally. Now I want to type words in the
>>>> 70% of
>>>> the remaining space to the right of the table so I went to 'Table
>>>> Properties' -> Text Flow and all the selections buttons are grayed
>>>> out. What am I doing wrong ??
>>>>
>>>> Thanks...
>>>>
>>>> Using Open Office 2.4.0.5
>>>
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Well I did say I was a bit rusty so I suppose a technis shot might
help... :-)

No, seriously though, I am actually beginning a web site I should have done
years ago for a business that should have made me wealthy by now. It's
about time and it isn't too late.

I think that the reason for my difficulty with Writer is a system wide
problem which is causing Writer to not (seemingly) function as expected.
So I am trying Quanta, Bluefish, et.al. to ascertain how to do the word
wrap... As I thought I'd get to the heart of the matter I tried to use
Yast to install Bluefish, which is the first html editor I ever tried many
years ago. Unfortunately the package seems to be corrupted and so Yast
wouldn't install it. So I got the source and ran ./configure, then make.
That's where I got a warning:

usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message_expr'

which is the same warning I get when trying to compile gimp from svn.. So I
will solve this issue first and then retry Writer...

Also, as a last resort, I opened up my Windows compatible HTML program
HomePage Builder from IBM under wine. Just as I remembered word wrap
worked as expected. Then I saved the page and opened it with Writer. I'll
soon know how to do this correctly with any of my Linux html editors though
I probably was doing it right in the first place.. Probably just something
to do with the previously mentioned system error I referenced previously.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help.
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