Subject: Re: Default margin-top and number of headings
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 13:08:31 CDT
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From: "Martin Sevior" <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <owen@pdaverticals.com>; "Karl Ove Hufthammer" <huftis@bigfoot.com>
Cc: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Default margin-top and number of headings
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>
> > I have two small questions.
> >
> > 1. Why is the default margin-top ("space before") for paragraphs set to 0,
> > instead of 12 pt? In text editors it should be 0, but in word processors, it
> > should be set to 12 pt (the Enter key starts a new paragraph).
>
> I don't believe there is a particular reason for this. No else has pointed
> it out as a problem before. What does MS Word do a default?
My version has a default 12 pt space before, but I'm not sure if this is because
I've changed it.
> We should copy
> that.
Having Enter create a new paragraph is much easier, more logical and better
(e.g. in distribution of space in page breaks and exporting to other formats),
regardless of what Word does. It's easier to learn and easier to work with (e.g.
when you move paragraphs).
> > 2. Will there be more headings in future versions ('Heading 4', 'Heading 5'
> > &c.)? We'll need this for importing (X)HTML (and LaTeX) anyway.
>
> It is very easy to define new Styles. We can make as many as are needed.
Great! But we should probably do some thorough research on this, and check
what's good typography (font sizes, styles (italics/bold) &c.). AbiWord should
have high quality output as default!
> That reminds me, about 3 months ago Owen Stenseth said he was interested
> in developing a styles dialog. Owen's the author of the perl script lists
> the translations needed.
A very useful script, btw.
> I wonder if Owen can give us an update on his progress on the Styles
> dialog? With the great Lists infrastructure we have in place it would be
> pretty easy to Auto number sections now. We should have a style to do
> this.
A separate 'style'?
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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