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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>
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