Re: Greek (and WordPerfect) (was Interface font)

You seem to be frustrated with the wysiwyg mode of document creation.
May I suggest you look into using "Styles" (an amazing tool in AbiWord)
and continuous section breaks for your variety of headers, else perhaps
LyX or LaTeX for a "what you see is what you mean" document creator?

Using Styles and section breaks, you can be incredibly flexible with the
formatting of your document, and change it at a whim from a central
location (just edit the style, rather than select all the text you want
like that then apply the change - apply the style once to a certain
"kind" of contents, update the actual presentation of it forever)

Good luck!

Thanks for (trying to) using AbiWord!

Ryan

Lars Eighner wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:53:53 -0600, "Michael Ward" said:
>>> I second that. I still use WP 5.1 sometimes, because (to my knowledge)
>>> it is still the only word processor with a full and *correct* ancient
>>> Greek font, *including* accents and breathings.
>>
>> My Greek usage has been fairly limited,
>
> Mine too, but I was under the impression that ancient Greek didn't have
> accents at all and the accents and stuff didn't come around until church
> Greek.
>
> Anyway, after being up all night I finally got a template that sort of
> would
> work for short-story manusripts, but had to do a lot of editing of
> templates
> in a trusty flat-ASCII editor. Now I discover that "Save as Word"
> actually
> results in some kind of rtf document, which might as well be ancient
> Greek
> to Word. So, I'm kind of stymied.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has ever thought of a "work just like a
> typewriter"
> mode. A book manuscript template would take at least three different
> kinds
> of headers, and I am just guess, but I bet pagination wouldn't really
> work
> properly in a book-length manuscript, so I'm thinking "Gee, I wish I
> still
> had a typewriter." I'm not sure I really mean that. But battling the
> formating is really tiresome. After all, the work should go into
> *production*, and you should have to spend several nights and day on
> *configuration*.
>
> Set the margins (which can be defeated with back tabs and space ups when
> necessary. Set the line spacing. And type. Wouldn't that be wonderful!
> If you need a header, space up into the top margin, back tab, and type
> it!
> Don't spend time trying to force it in some preconceive XML schema
> that was
> devised by someone who has never written "cat" even when spotted the c
> and
> the a.
>
> Imagine a world in which software did what people needed instead of
> trying
> to convince people to need what the software can do!
>
> "You may say I'm a dreamer
> But I'm not the only one."
> --John Lennon
>

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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