OT: re AbiWord and margins

virgil huston virgil.huston at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 14:08:41 PDT 2005


Does Abiword have Styles? If so, you can set them up and apply them to
blocks of text.
Virgil

On 9/20/05, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 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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>   Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix
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