From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 21:08:41 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 2E8F216A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from virgil.huston@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57C943D48 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:08:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from virgil.huston@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so55885nzd for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:08:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kVABF7Lb8MLVIxirykn2ZAc62pR1/nzmsU11ZwD69mTLLryM+Omcl1NO/i3Z7dbiPNO3o+IxST5d2pnS/KYrs0aDjyQhHnAcDJiSdxNkyCE6qjeZS4Vyu0K7QtkMlRlTSVDJ/bpt9/voIKqxEmHC2SEKFQp7MgAzEeKPB2RqB/I= Received: by 10.54.97.12 with SMTP id u12mr2070278wrb; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.78.17 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cf08c810509201408746f201d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:08:40 -0400 From: virgil huston To: FreeBSD Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050920184716.GA960@thought.org> <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com> <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org> Subject: Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: virgil.huston@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:08:41 -0000 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 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. > > >=20 > 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.) >=20 > Thanks again! I'd never have spotted this ujntil 2087 :-) >=20 > gary >=20 >=20 > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service U= nix >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >