[softwarelist] Re: paste chapter
- From: David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:33:34 +0000
Hi,
In message <4CEC2792.3040006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Prewett
<pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Perhaps I should do a clean install of OP.
I think not.
The above saga is a repetition of the problems with insert/delete page.
Usually a document has an "auto linked chain of master frames" with
"automatic page insertion and deletion". Sounds complicated. It means
that the document behaves as you expect, you type and when you come to
the end of a page, magically another page appears and you carry on
typing.
Dump 40 pages of text into a frame, and magically 40 pages appear.
What I think you've done is turn off automatic page insertion. You can
then delete all the pages using the "delete page" function, and you get
your two pages. The problem is that they still contain 40 pages worth of
text. As soon as that text hits a document with automatic page insertion
turned on it will produce 40 pages of text.
The solution, is to forget the "insert page" and "delete page"
functions. If you want a document with just two pages worth of text,
mark the text before the desired text, delete it, then mark the text
after the desired text and delete that.
As to the preferences for "auto page insert" and "auto page delete",
maybe better if they're left with their default settings of "on".
I understand what you want - delete page to delete both the page/frames
and the text they contain, insert page to insert both pages/frames and
also new page codes in the text. Good idea, but alas 20 years ago we
didn't think of it.
The functions OP provides will let you achieve what you want, but you
have to do it by hand - in two parts pages/frames and text contents.
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