Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!hsi!stpstn!cox From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Figures in Word 4.0 Message-ID: <6009@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 91 15:00:56 GMT References: <1991Jan8.173714.581@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: Stepstone Lines: 26 In article <1991Jan8.173714.581@athena.mit.edu> krboyce@athena.mit.edu (Kevin R Boyce) writes: >dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) writes: >>teskridg@nmsu.edu (Tom Eskridge) writes: >>>Is there any way to fix the position of graphics in a Word 4.0 document >> >>Certainly, you choose position from the format menu and ... > >Here's my problem with that,... >Now, if the graphic is large enough that it _would have_ >caused a page break if it were still at its "in-line" position, it will >_still_ cause a page break there, and then be positioned correctly on the >next page. I had an extended discussion with one of Word's developers about this very matter. It seems that they decided that reliable figure and footnote handling was a problem for a page layout program, not a problem for Word. If anyone knows of a human-friendly solution in either Word, Nisus, PageMaker or their permutations, please let me know how you do it. The Mac may be wonderful for magazines and newsletters and the like, but it I find it somewhat short of 'insanely wonderful' for writing technical figures with simple figures and footnotes. Grmmpf... -- Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875 The Stepstone Corporation; 75 Glen Road; Sandy Hook CT 06482