OT: re AbiWord and margins

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Tue Sep 20 13:27:54 PDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:36:09AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >	Apologies up front for this genral question; this time I 
> >	*have* searched for a solution, but to no avail.
> >
> >	With OpenOffice's WP I can change typeface, margin, &c
> >	by dragging mouse over read-in file.  Once entire file is
> >	highlighted, altering fonts and margin is easy.  With 
> >	Abiword, mousing the file is extremely slow.  Is there 
> >	an easier way of resetting the margin to be much narrower?
> >	This would save paper and handling in my early drafts.
> >
> >	OO is outstanding++, but takes too long to build/rebuild.
> >	Be nice to have a lighter-weight WP on my servers.  So if
> >	there is a magic answer, I'd be much obliged for some
> >	clues!
> >
> >	gary
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Gay
> 
> You can always click "edit" then "select all".
> 
> I'm really not sure if this is what you are asking about.
> 

	Yes! thankee much.  My only other question is if Abiword
	has a place where to set the margins.  Moving those 
	onscreen margin settings is dfficult, esp'ly when I'll
	have several places of [BLOCKQUOTE]  [/BLOCKQUOTE]
	that need to be indented.  (This "blockquote" feature 
	is missing even on OO.)

	Thanks again!  I'd never have spotted this ujntil 2087 :-)

	gary


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