Chaining textboxes, enhancing OpenDocument formats...

[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Monday, March 05, 2012 10:05:22 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Montag, 5. März 2012, 04:58:57 schrieb Thorsten Zachmann:
> > Hello Friedrich,
> > 
> > > is there really no support for chaining textboxes in OpenDocument, so
> > > text content is flowing between those boxes, as needed? Please tell me
> > > there is.
> > 
> > there is
> > 
> > 19.118 draw:chain-next-name
> 
> Ah, verrry good, thanks (somehow that entry managed to slip my eyes and
> grep skills for a few days, me).
> 
> > which does what you are looking for and it is already supported in
> > Calligra.
> 
> But not in all programs, or? At least in the Karbon UI I could not find a
> way to connect two non-artistic text shapes, while in Words UI I do get a
> dialog if I add another text shape.

Right. There is support for setting it up and loading it only in words. 
However the way it is done in words might not be usefull for others as words 
uses additional classes to handle its layouting. This is only a guess.
Saving it out seems to be supported already.

Thorsten