Flowing DOWN the page PAST straddling frames

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

(FM 556 on Win95)

Am I missing something?

If one has a document with two columns of text per page and anchored frames
the total width of those two columns... Does FM have no way of continuing the
flow of text DOWN the page to the page-bottom of the left column and then down
the right column to the page-bottom of the right column?

I have experimented with anchoring my anchored frames in various ways and
setting them to in-column or to straddle, but I have not found a way to get
the flow to behave.  I have set the paragraph containing the anchor to stay
in-column, etc.

I know that I should have noticed this a long time ago, but maybe I just could
not believe it?!  

If I am correct (and I hope note), it seems like it is time to go back 20
years when one could do fine typography (though slowly) or change to TeX.  Why
can something like LaTeX do all sorts of really neat stuff that nobody else
has been able to touch with a modern product?

Sorry to vent.

-- 
Jay Smith

e-mail: jay@jaysmith.com

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