Chaining textboxes, enhancing OpenDocument formats...

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 05 March 2012 18:46:34 Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> 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.
indeed

However if someone want to re factor it an move it to the textshape and use a 
datacenter for chaining then I'm all for it.