> > 
> > Anyway, if you think about it, it's a useless option.  
> 
> I don't follow you here. (Maybe you think about it? :)
> 
> A paragraph can basically be left aligned (all lines have the 
> same left end and the right end varies), right aligned (all 
> lines have the same right end and the left end varies) or 
> centered (the distances of left and right ends to a straight 
> vertical line left and right are the same). 
> 
> Now when you justify a paragraph -- that is, you make left 
> and right ends a straight vertical line --, you basically 
> still maintain the quality of left, right or center, it just 
> is visible only in the last line. It's just that Word doesn't 
> do this -- all justified paragraphs in Word are underneath 
> left-aligned --, and so all who grew up with Word don't know 
> it otherwise.
> 
> > Right align is pointless (yuk), and forcing either left or 
> justify (by 
> > a
> > style) is pointless too.  To be useful, you'd have to set 
> it for each 
> > individual paragraph, and life's too short for that.
> 
> You must be talking about something else. Giving a justified 
> paragraph a right-aligned or centered last partial line is 
> just as valid as giving it a left-aligned last partial line 
> -- it's just less "Wordy"... 


Yeah, now I know what you're talking about, and Word doesn't do it.  Real
typesetting programs do that stuff.  I've had to do it exactly once in Word,
and for the life of me I can't remember how.  It's been years since I had to
worry about that stuff.

When you say 'paragraph justify centered', I take it you mean 'align to
spline' or whatever it's usually called.  For some reason I was envisioning
this:

	Blah blah blah blah
	blah blah blah blah
	        blah

LOL.  I need more sleep.  You probably mean this:

	Blah blah blah blah  |  Blah blah blah blah
	blah blah blah blah  |  blah blah blah blah
	               blah  |  blah

Odd pages are 'justify & last right', even pages 'justify & last left'.  Not
something you do much in a lifetime.  Word does 'fully justified' in a
half-arsed way.  You insert a hard return at the end of the line, so you get
this:

	Blah blah blah blah
	blah blah blah blah
	B    l     a      h

Nice.  The half-arsed bit is now you get a bonus blank line (due to 2
returns), but not in Writer.

I don't justify text anyway, to do it right you need to enable hyphenation,
and to do that right you need to set each instance individually, then fiddle
with the kerning & spacing.  Done wrong it's actually hard to read.  The
typesetter can do that, that's their job.

If Writer really want to grab some market share they should look at handling
graphics (anchors & such) better than Word does.  The article didn't mention
that either, so I guess Writer sucks too.

Well, Word handles it just fine, it's just such a pain-in-the-arse to fiddle
with it.  For every picture you get to go thru the whole 'set 40 options
here & there' bit.  It really needs a 'picture styles' setting.

Captions suck too.  Putting them in, setting the label and creating x-refs
works well enough (custom labels would be nice), but Word treats the graphic
& the caption as two separate items, not buddies like it should, so if
you're not careful you wind up with the picture on one page, and the caption
three or four pages down.  Gah.

What I do is create a new table style.  I apply that to a picture, and it
embeds it into a 1 cell table.  The caption goes into the cell as well, so
now they are buddies like they should be.  Since it's a style, I can set the
spacing around pictures fairly easily by adjusting the cell spacing.  All of
them at once, not once for every frigging picture.  It really only works for
'top & bottom' wrapping, but for tech docs (screenshots) it works well.  (Of
course, instead of 50 pictures, I now have 50 pictures and 50 tables.)
Other people tend not to break this as much.  For 'this picture goes in the
middle of the page and doesn't ever move' stuff, not so well.

Tony

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