Re: Setting default tab stops for new docs?

From: Dave Wood <dave_at_unrealize.co.uk>
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 17:16:44 CET

On (16:27 18/03/08), Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> put forth the proposition:
>
> Dave Wood wrote:
> >I've been trying to set a default tab stop so I don't need to set it per
> >document. Can't seem to find any way of doing it at present.
> >
> >
> Set the tab stops in the normal.awt file. It depends on your OS where
> this is and what permissions you need to edit it, but editing it in
> AbiWord lets you set the defaults for new documents. You may need to
> change the Normal style instead of setting the stops directly, I am not
> sure.

Thanks that worked.

sudo abiword /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/templates/normal.awt

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