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- From: Stanley Anderson <anderson4@delphi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter and outlines
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 21:30:05 -0500
- Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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- X-To: David Meyer <dmeyer@tiac.net>
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- David Meyer <dmeyer@tiac.net> writes:
-
- >Mark E. Daniel (lsi@aldhfn.aldhfn.org) wrote:
- >: I'm trying to use FinalWriter to do outlines and things. I find it very
- >: hard to tell if my text is going to be lined up. It's hard to use TABs
- >: because you have to use the ruler instead of spacing. And if I space over
- >: three spaces from the margin I don't line up with something that's three
- >: spaces over. Any ideas on how to understand how to line things up using
- >: FinalWriter?
-
- First, try using a non-proportional font, such as Courier rather than
- a proportional font.
-
- Makes it much easier.
-
-
- >My User Tool Bar contains a pair of buttons intended for use in creating
- >outline documents. One resets the margins "in" a tab, the other resets
- >the margins "out" a tab. They also set the text in "hanging indent"
- >style. So, I want to go from I) to A) (or to "a)") which means "down a
-
-
- David, could you be more explicit; specifically, how did you set the buttons
- do reset the margins. This sounds interesting, but I'm totally exhausted
- from digging through software manuals at this point, so trying to dig the
- info out of the FinalWriter manual is not appealing.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Stan Anderson
-