Avoid carriage return in paragraph with doxc4j

Question

I think that paragraph elements by definition creates a new line but I need to insert elements as the first element of a page not moving down existing elements.

Is there another element I can use instead of paragraph? I think that only tables and paragraphs are available and I understand that tables contains paragraphs so they don't work for my purpose.

Or maybe exists any property I can set to avoid the new paragraph moving the other elements?

I tried keepNext and keepLines but is not what I'm looking for.

Answer 1

You can absolutely position an ellipse, without it being in the first paragraph on the page.

In Word, on your ellipse, right click and choose "More layout options". On the position tab, eg 1" below page.

This creates something like:

        <w:r>
            <w:pict>
                <v:oval strokecolor="#243f60 [1604]" strokeweight="2pt" 
style="position:absolute;margin-left:41.25pt;margin-top:1in;
width:207.35pt;height:1in;z-index:251659264;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:page;mso-width-percent:0;mso-width-relative:margin;v-text-anchor:middle" id="Oval 1" o:spid="_x0000_s1026">
                        <w10:wrap anchory="page"/>
                    </v:oval>
                </w:pict>
            </w:r>

If for some reason you want to add a new first paragraph, you could make the paragraph have a small font, with no space before or after. r:Pr/r:vanish causes the ellipse to vanish, so don't try that!