Conquering multi-page floating tables

COOL Days 2024 (https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cool-days-2024/), Cambridge

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1. Miklos Vajna Software Engineer vmiklos@collabora.com 2024-04-09 Conquering multi-page floating tables
2. 2/7 Multi-page floating tables
3. 3/7 Creating: insert a table
4. 4/7 Creating: insert a frame
5. 5/7 Creating: allow the frame to split
6. 6/7 Layout representation At-paragraph anchored (fly) frame Frame height is automatic Top left of anchor frames Content flows around the frame on the last page Vertical offset is only rendered on the first page 5 4 3 2 1 3 5 1 2 3 4
7. 7/7 Summary • Originally requested in 2013, multi-page floating tables arrived to Writer • COOL 23.05 / LibreOffice 24.2 • Status: enabled by default for all DOCX, DOC & RTF files • How it interacts with headers/footers, orphan/widow control, minimal row height, compatibility modes, change tracking, etc. – is complex, but we cover it • Defaulting to the way today’s Word (>= 2013) does it, but also have a legacy mode for older documents