From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 23:34:03 EDT
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> wrote:
>
> > I've been wondering if a couple of things are
> > possible in AbiWord and how to achieve them. If
> > they are not possible yet I'll submit RFEs.
> >
> > It's often desirable to have part of a line of
> text
> > left-aligned and part right-aligned. This is
> common
> > in the contents and index pages of books. When we
> > have tables there will be a table-abuse way to do
> this
> > but is there a way now? Perhaps with some kind of
> > special tab?
>
> Yes. Use a right aligned TAB to do this. It left
> hard at all with left and
> right aligne tabs.
>
> Left TAB Right
> TAB
> Here->
> Here->
> <TAB> 1. Chapter 1 <TAB>
> 1
> <TAB> 2. Chapter 2 <TAB>
> 20
> <TAB> 3. Chapter 3 <TAB>
> 35
>
> AbiWord does this already. We also have tab leader
> support too, so you
> you filling hte gaps with ".","-","_" or other
> chars. plam did this work.
This is perfect! Is there a way to set a tab to
always be the rightmost edge of the document so that
if the document size changes, the tab is always at
the edge? I guess I want a right-relative tab instead
of a left-relative tab.
Andrew.
> > An enhancement of the above also in contents pages
> of
> > magazines and books is to fill the intervening
> space
> > between the left and right with a line of period
> > characters. Does any word processor support this?
> > It would be very useful.
> >
>
> We do :-) Look at tab leaders.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
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