Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: RTF with .doc extension
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 12:03:35 CST
> Let me be more specific. Now that I've changed the default file save to
>
> .rtf, is there a similar way to change the default open format. It
> still
> says .abw wheras all my documents are either .rtf or .txt. By
> experimentation I tried DefaultOpenFormat following the same format as
> the
> Default save command but it didn't work.
No, and I don't think that there will be. We have a smart "auto-detect"
feature. The Windows File->Open dialog should default to "Auto-Detect" and not
"AbiWord (.abw)". I'll look into this, but we won't have a default open type,
becuase it really doesn't make much sense.
> Now that I've confessed my transgression in experimentation, I can see
> why
> you would discourage this type of behavior. I could really mess things
> up
> and then flood you with even more questions.
Precisely.
> 1. Line spacing on page doesn't match what's on screen. For example,
> line
> spacing on the page is more condensed than on screen. I'm an attorney
> and
> it's essential that line spacing be right for the Courts who have little
>
> elves with rulers making sure our briefs are properly formatted. With
> this
> one bug fixed, I could use Abi for just about all of my work as I can
> work
> around the other bugs.
Wierd. I'll have someone look into this.
> 2. Various paragraph formatting items, such as widow protection, keep
> with
> next, etc. don't seem to be working. I use these features extensively
> in
> the few styles I use.
We'll look into this.
> 3. Fine tune styles. You've got a real good start here but some
> features,
> such as hot-key assignment don't seem to be working.
This will be hard to do, and it's not very high on our priority list.
> 4. Implement some form of sections to allow different formatting such
> as
> different page number styles for a table of contents as opposed to the
> body
> of a document.
Something like this has been done already for the upcoming release.
> 5. PLEASE, make the cursor follow the pageup/pagedn keys.
I'll fix this.
Dom
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