Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:08:40 -0400 From: virgil huston <virgil.huston@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins Message-ID: <3cf08c810509201408746f201d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org> References: <20050920184716.GA960@thought.org> <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com> <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org>
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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@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. > > >=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" >
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