IBM Lotus Symphony
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Specifies compatibility settings for text documents. These options help in fine-tuning Lotus® Symphony™
To access this command... Open a text document, choose File - Preferences - Symphony - Lotus Symphony Documents - Compatibility |
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Some of the settings defined here are only valid for the current document and must be defined separately for each document. |
Specifies that printer metrics are applied for printing and also for formatting the display on the screen. If this box is not checked, a printer independent layout will be used for screen display and printing.
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If you set this option for the current document and then save the document, for example, in an older binary format, this option will not be saved. If you later open the file from the older format, this option will be set by default. |
In Lotus Symphony Documents, paragraph spacing is defined differently than in MS Word documents. If you have defined spacing between two paragraphs or tables, spacing is also added in the corresponding MS Word documents.
Specifies whether to add MS Word-compatible spacing between paragraphs and tables in Lotus Symphony Documents
Specifies whether paragraph spacing at the top of a page will also be effective at the beginning of a page or column if the paragraph is positioned on the first page of the document. The same applies for a page break.
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If you import an MS Word document, the spaces are automatically added during the conversion. |
Specifies how to align text at tab stops beyond the right margin, how to handle decimal tab stops, and how to handle tab stops close to a line break. If this check box is not selected, tab stops are handled in the same way as in other Lotus Symphony applications.
In documents created by your current version of Lotus Symphony Documents, the new tab stop handling is used by default. In documents created by Lotus Symphony 1.x, the old tab stop handling is applied.
Specifies that additional leading (extra space) between lines of text is not added, even if the font in use contains the additional leading attribute.
In documents created by your current version of Lotus Symphony Documents, the additional leading is used by default. In documents created by Lotus Symphony 1.x, the additional leading is not used.
If the option is off, a new process for formatting text lines with proportional line spacing will be applied. If the option is on, the previous method of formatting of text lines with proportional line spacing will be applied.
In documents created by your current version of Lotus Symphony Documents and in Microsoft Word documents of recent versions, the new process is used. In documents created by Lotus Symphony 1.x, the previous process is used.
Specifies that the bottom spacing is added to a paragraph, even when it is the last paragraph in a table cell.
If the option is off, table cells will be formatted as in Lotus Symphony 1.x. If the option is on, an alternative method of formatting table cells will be applied. The option is on by default for new documents created with Lotus Symphony and for documents imported from Microsoft Word format.
Specifies how to calculate the position of floating objects anchored to a character or paragraph with respect to the top and bottom paragraph spacing.
If the option is on, the floating objects are positioned as in Lotus Symphony 1.x. If the option is off, the floating objects are positioned using an alternative method that is similar to the method used by Microsoft Word.
The option will be set to off for new documents. For Lotus Symphony Documents created by a version prior to Lotus Symphony the option is on.
MS Word and Lotus Symphony Documents have different approaches on wrapping text around floating screen objects. Floating screen object are Lotus Symphony Documents frames and drawing objects, and the objects 'text box', 'graphic', 'frame', 'picture' etc. in MS Word.
In MS Word and in current versions of Lotus Symphony Documents, page header/footer content and footnote and endnote content does not wrap around floating screen objects. Text body content wraps around floating screen objects which are anchored in the page header.
In Lotus Symphony 1.x, the opposite was true.
If the option is off, which is the default setting, the new text wrapping will be applied. If the option is on, the former text wrapping will be applied.
Specifies how the complex process of positioning floating objects that are anchored to a character or paragraph should work. In Lotus Symphony 1.x, an iterative process was used, while in current versions a straightforward process is used, which is similar to the same process in Microsoft Word.
If the option is off, the old Lotus Symphony iterative process of object positioning is used. If the option is on, the new straightforward process is used to ensure compatibility with Microsoft Word documents.
If enabled, Lotus Symphony Documents adds spacing between words, in lines that end with Shift+Enter in justified paragraphs. If disabled, spacing between words will not be expanded to justify the lines.
This setting is on by default for .odt text documents. It will be saved and loaded with the document in the .odt Lotus Symphony document format. This setting cannot be saved in old .sxw text documents, so this setting is off for .sxw text documents.
Click to use the current settings on this tab page as the default for further sessions with Lotus Symphony
The factory defaults are set as follows. Enabled are the following options, while all other options are disabled:
Add spacing between paragraphs and tables (in current document)
Add paragraph and table spacing at tops of pages (in current document)
Add paragraph and table spacing at bottom of table cells
Expand word space on lines with manual line breaks in justified paragraphs