Re: Bringing multi-page floating tables to ODF

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Regina,

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 10:18:53PM +0200, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I see an additional problem with this new feature:
> The text which wraps around the table leaves a large gap on the first page,
> when the table increases so that it extends to the second page. I see, that
> Word has this strange behavior. I have only found [*]. The answer there is a
> workaround, only suitable in a final layout.
> I'm afraid users will also complain to us that the text doesn't stay on the
> first page. I consider the layout in Word as bug in Word.
> 
> [*] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/text-wrapping-around-a-tabe-in-word/eb6fa861-7c3e-4765-9405-f247f03781d3

Reading <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61594#c33>,
there is an allowTextAfterFloatingTableBreak compat flag on the Word
side that would allow wrapping on all pages. At the moment Writer layout
assumes that this flag is off all the time. I don't see UI in Word to
enable this flag, but if I edit a DOCX file by hand, then it indeed
seems to do what you want.

Given infinite time, I would like to have a matching Writer option in
tools -> options that allows doing the same, though short-term I'm more
interested in getting the current feature set more bug-free / stable.

Regards,

Miklos