HI Rob,
        the edittable headers and footers has a lot of issues that I'm
still grappling with.

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I downloaded the nightly build in order to try out the 
> new header & footer editing capabilities.  I have 
> encountered a few problems so far:
> 
> (1) When I insert a page number in the header, it 
> appears at the very top of the page.  There is no margin.
> 

This is a bug in the pagesetup dialog in the Windows front end. The code
to adjust the header/footer margins is in place and the is connected
correctly in the Unix front end. I logged this bug about the Windows
Dialog in bugzilla. 

> (2) After inserting a page number in either the header 
> or footer, the cursor is placed in the main body of the 
> document. Clicking in the header/footer (as if to edit 
> it) and then clicking in the main body crashes AbiWord.  
> Dr. Wastson reports: "Exception: access violation 
> (0xc0000005), Address: 0x00455007".  A large (11.5 MB) 
> dump file is created, which I can try to send if anyone 
> is interested.  On a positive note, the basic editing 
> features do work, until you move back to the main body.
> 

Hmm this is strange. This works fine in Unix. I wonder what the issue is?

> (3) This next item is related to a Tab bug, which I will 
> elaborate on in a later e-mail.  For now, I'll just say 
> that AbiWord does not handle right-aligned tabs at the 
> right hand edge of the document properly.  In the case 
> of a footer, it will lock up AbiWord.
> 
> After styles, header & footer editing is the feature I 
> most look forward to.  I hope that this feedback is 
> helpful.  And thanks for all the work so far.
> 

Thanks Rob. We will fix this and get styles going over the next 2 weeks I
think.

Cheers

Martin



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