Re: Anyone using AppleWorks GS 1.1?

[perrywat@unity.ncsu.edu (Julian P Watson)]

In article <DHJpun.771@actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <47eoug$b01@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
>Julian P Watson <perrywat@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 	I would appreciate directions on how to wrap text around a 
>> graphic box and/or a text box in AppleWorks GS 1.1.  For the present, I 
>> am unable to keep text out of, or away from, graphic boxes and text boxes.
>
>In the Page Layout module, presumably?
>
>It is reasonably easy to do.  All you need to do is set up several
>text objects in the right shape to avoid the area occupied by the
>graphic, and link them all together.
>
>Let's see if I can draw a picture:
>
>  _____________________________________________
> |  _________________________________________  |
> | | Text region 1 - main body of text       | |
> | | starts here.                            | |
> | |                                         | |
> | |                                         | |
> | |_________________________________________| |
> | | Text region 2       |  _______________    |
> | |                     | |               |   |
> | |                     | |    Graphic    |   |
> | |                     | |_______________|   |
> | |_____________________|___________________  |
> | | Text region 3                           | |
> | |                                         | |
> | |                                         | |
> | |                                         | |
> | |_________________________________________| |
> |_____________________________________________|
>
>In this example, I have a graphic about half way down the right side
>of the page, so I set up three text regions that "flow" around the
>graphic.  Text region 1 is linked to text region 2, and text region 2
>is linked to text region 3.  This causes the text in region 1 to
>continue through regions 2 and 3 if there is not enough space to
>display it all.
>


As usual, our good friend in New Zealand has helpful information to 
impart.  I always enjoy reading David Empson's *excellent* responses.

What I am attempting to do, and I guess I wasn't too clear in my first 
message, is to use a "drop caps" effect where I employ a large capital
letter as an introduction to each paragraph.  Example:

______   
|    |et all good men
| L  |join to the party
|____|of their choice.


When I attempt to do the above, I cannot seem to keep the "L" space free 
from the remaining text; the text will not "stay out of" the capital L's
space.  This happens, too, when I use a small clip-art graphic; the text
runs right through the small graphic at the beginning of a paragraph.  I
would like to be able to have the text "run around" the "L" and the
clip-art. 

Many thanks, David, for your most complete help and suggestions.  If 
there is a solution to the above set of problems, I'd appreciate your 
guidance!

Warmest wishes come to you from Raleigh, North Carolina.

	-Perry 

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