Re: format choices

Don,

I never mess with styles, so I can't speak from experience. Take what I
say with a grain of salt until someone with experience chimes in. In
the meantime: Open Abiword, click on the Format drop-down menu, click
on the last item (in my version): "Create and Modify Styles." The
interface that opens gives you a menu of all the styles available to
you ("In Use," "All," and "User Defined").

Here you can modify or delete styles from any of the groupings. You may
be able to merely define your own styles, or delete from the "All"
group to suit your taste. What I don't know is how these changes will
affect the drop-down style menu next to the font menu. If you feel
like taking a chance, you could alter that "All" selection by deleting
what you don't want. Click "apply." Close and reopen Abiword.

Another possibility is to perform this operation on a template used to
store all modifications you make to "normal.awt" stored in
usr/share/abiword/templates for system-wide changes, or in your home
directory for user-specific changes (assuming you're running Linux).

I've never heard of anyone wanting to do this before, and the menu
itself may be hardwired into Abiword. But practically everything is
configurable, and what I'm describing is how I'd go about it (if no
one else seemed able to give me directions).

Good luck.

--Mark

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:24:36 -0700
Donald Miller <damiller2@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello James
>
> I want to use defined normal, head 1, head 2, blocktext, chptr head,
> none of the other 31/36.
> The others are getting in my way, are easy to hit by accident, waste
> much time undoing and getting back on track.
>
> Regards,
> Don Miller damiller2@gmail.com
> ======================================
> Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:36:13 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Donald Miller
> > <damiller2@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Abiword-user
> >>
> >> Never got an answer, so re-ask.
> >> In the format window, left of font selector, is there any way to
> >> display ONLY the options I want to see? Present clutter is very
> >> distracting, and constantly forcing choices I never want.
>
> > Perhaps like others i don't follow what you're asking? The interface
> > is clear, not clutter and not very distracting. Follows similar with
> > LO-writer and other apps.
>
> > james
>
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