From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 20:27:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40D816A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:27:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476DD43D45 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:27:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8KKRnMv001817; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j8KKRng2001816; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:27:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Robert Marella Message-ID: <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org> References: <20050920184716.GA960@thought.org> <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:27:54 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix