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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
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