--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar > wrote: > > > I've been wondering if a couple of things are > > possible in AbiWord and how to achieve them. If > > they are not possible yet I'll submit RFEs. > > > > It's often desirable to have part of a line of > text > > left-aligned and part right-aligned. This is > common > > in the contents and index pages of books. When we > > have tables there will be a table-abuse way to do > this > > but is there a way now? Perhaps with some kind of > > special tab? > > Yes. Use a right aligned TAB to do this. It left > hard at all with left and > right aligne tabs. > > Left TAB Right > TAB > Here-> > Here-> > <TAB> 1. Chapter 1 <TAB> > 1 > <TAB> 2. Chapter 2 <TAB> > 20 > <TAB> 3. Chapter 3 <TAB> > 35 > > AbiWord does this already. We also have tab leader > support too, so you > you filling hte gaps with ".","-","_" or other > chars. plam did this work.
This is perfect! Is there a way to set a tab to always be the rightmost edge of the document so that if the document size changes, the tab is always at the edge? I guess I want a right-relative tab instead of a left-relative tab. Andrew. > > An enhancement of the above also in contents pages > of > > magazines and books is to fill the intervening > space > > between the left and right with a line of period > > characters. Does any word processor support this? > > It would be very useful. > > > > We do :-) Look at tab leaders. > > Cheers > > Martin > > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
