Spanned figures in multi-column layouts

[Art Campbell]

Try setting:
 * Your Anchor para tag pagination to "across all columns."
 * The Body (or whatever) tags just above the Anchor tag to "Keep With
Previous" para. This should prevent them from jumping into the next
column.

Art

On 12/7/06, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I am struggling to find a way to make an anchored frame span more than one column of a multi-column layout. If I set the frame uncropped, it messes with the text flow (the text threads to adjacent columns above the figure, which is not what I want), and if I set it cropped, half of it disappears behind the adjacent column of text. If I create a  paragraph for the anchor that has 'across all columns' set, I get the same effect as setting the frame uncropped.
>
> I suspect it might be something to do with the runaround properties of the frame, but I seem to remember that this can only be accessed using Dark Magic. Can anyone suggest a solution? What I want to achieve is for a figure to span more than one column, but for the text threading to be unaffected by the presence of the figure.
>
> --
> Steve

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