Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:27:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Robert Marella <rmarella@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OT: re AbiWord and margins Message-ID: <20050920202749.GB1437@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com> References: <20050920184716.GA960@thought.org> <433064A9.1010104@gmail.com>
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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
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