From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 21:11:03 EST
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 05:59, Alan Rowan wrote:
> I am new to AbiWord and have downloaded the latest
> version for Windows, 1.0.4, Millennium Edition. I am
> trying to make a document that will print out and look
> like a paperback book with page numbers at the top
> outside of each page except for the first page of each
> chapter. My problem is that I do not understand what
> it is that is being set in Page Setup under Margins
> and Header. I thought the value I put in would be the
> distance from the top of the page to the start of the
> header block and that Top Margin was the distance from
> the top of the page to the start of the body of the
> text with the header ending at that distance. That
> does not seem to be the case. I played around and
> ended up with Top at 0.61 inches and Header at 0.31
> inches to get the page number printed out at the very
> top of the page. The Header block has 2 lines in it
> when I only need 1. Is there a way to cause the page
> numbers to be printed at the very top of the page
> where the printer margin is, 0.33 inches, and for the
> body of the text to start at 0.53 inches from the top
> of the page? The margins I set, Top 0.61 inches and
> Header 0.31 inches, are those which would avoid an
> error message of margins to large.
>
> _______
You can set the margins of the body of the text by dragging the little
square box on the left ruler to where you want it.
Other things to try are inserting blank lines needed to get things to
the right place.
Just play with thinsg till they look right - abiword is a What You See
is What You Get word processor.
Cheers
Martin
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