[softwarelist] Re: Creating one-off coloured pages

In article <O9Xv5pB1YNFGFwYE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4eceb9bd7flouie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Louie 
> <louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >I wonder if someone knows how to make a double page spread in a chapter a
> >different colour to the rest of the chapter.

> What is going to be a different colour? The page background? the master 
> frame background?

Yep- the page background.

> I can only think of sticking a big frame at the back of the page set to 
> the colour you desire.

I'll do that then, I just wondered if there was an option to actually make
the page a different colour. 

> >article, but I keep getting rouge pages

> I don't blame you for seeing red.

d'oh!

> >, where sometimes the lines wrap
> >around as I edit.

> You could turn off auto page insertion, perhaps appropriate for a 
> magazine where you're working to a fixed number of pages.

Ah ha! Cheers!

> >Also, I have turned off auto-hyphenation, but where I have frames that
> >don't quite come to the edge of a text column, I'm getting rouge
> >characters, or words that are split up into letter along side a frame. I
> >can't find a button that will stop this from happening! Any one know
> >anything?

> This is a feature copied from Impression. The idea is to get some text 
> in at all costs. How about changing the text repulsion (flow) settings 
> for the overlying frames.

I've tried this, but I'm using an irregular frame in this particular
problem. Is there a setting somewhere that means that I can turn the 'word
collection' on, or something similar?
    
Cheers

Louie

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