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Layout tips for "side boxes"
Hi,
I'm laying out a long report (~120 pages) in Word and would like to set up what I call "side boxes", though I don't know the official typographical name for them. For an example of what I'm talking about, look at this document: http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2..._chapter_5.pdf on page 158 (11), look at Box 5.3. I will probably have 20 boxes in the document overall. So, I have a couple of questions on how to set this up. 1) Would you recommend "floating" the boxes, and if so, how? I would love something similar to Latex, where I could just place the box in the text, and Word would move the box up or down on the page as necessary and flow text around it, filling in above or below as necessary. However, I'd also want to be able to reference the box numbers with cross-references. 2) For now, I have set up the boxes as two styles: 1 style for the heading and box title, and another style for the box text - these both have background shading, borders, and different fonts to set the box off from the rest of the text. This seems to work ok except for tables - when I insert a table into the middle of the box text style (which has shading and borders), the box text style stops and the table is left in the middle, without the shading or borders of the surrounding style. How can I rectify this? For example, if I place a photo inline it seems to work fine, but a table does not - is it some sort of magical object? It kinda looks like this ---------------- | box text | | box text | ---------------- -------- |table | -------- ---------------- | box text | | box text | I'd like the table to be inside the box, if that makes sense. 3) What is the official "typographical" name for these things? thanks, karl |
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