○ Designing the page's layout with columns and rows (Content Converter)
This article contains information about the Content Converter. This is an external tool that can convert aNewSpring content to Word and vice versa. More information about the Content Converter can be found on this page.
Previous step:
Download the example file:
In aNewSpring, you use the plus-editor to divide content into blocks. You can make this as complicated as you want, but in Word, you only can put content in columns and rows.
Use the [column]
tag for this.
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Creating columns
In the previous step, you determined the canvas width. You specify how wide the columns in the canvas are with a percentage.
If the canvas is divided into two columns with an image on the left and text on the right, start with the tag:
[column:50%]
Image[column:50%]
Text
Please note the following rules:
- The sum of all columns has to be 100%.
- A column has to be at least 3% wide.
- You cannot place more than 12 columns in a single row.
When the sum of the columns is more than 100%, the converter will shorten the last block until the total width does reach 100%.
Using multiple rows
All columns are displayed in one row until you end with [column:end]
. Add a new column tag to divide the next row.
Adding an empty block in a column
Using the tag [column:empty]
allows you to add an empty block in your column. This can be useful for the layout of your content!
Splitted blocks
In de plus-editor in aNewSpring you can split content blocks into a row. This will put two blocks under each other:
When one of these blocks contains content other than text and the other block contains text, this layout can be converted correctly from aNewSpring to Word and vice versa.
Example
Use the sample file of this article.
The relative canvas width is set to 70% of the screen by default in aNewSpring. In this example, we leave it as is.
Within the canvas, a division is made of 3 rows.
- The first row contains two columns.
The column on the left gets 25% space and the column on the right 75%. - The second row fills the space 100%.
- The third row contains three columns.
Column left 25%, centre 50%, right 25%.
This is the result in aNewSpring. As you can see, all the columns fill the canvas 100%.
Next step:
Add content in the blocks of the plus-editor: