Subject: Re: The New Styles
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 12:31:52 CST
The overwhelming consent seems to be to have the normal style back to 0pt
spacing before a paragraph, so I've changed it to be so.
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>From: Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
>To: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>
>CC: James Montgomerie <jamie@montgomerie.net>, Tomas Frydrych
><tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>, abiword-dev@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: The New Styles
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:17:09 +1100 (EST)
>
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > This is a potentially serious problem. I agree with Jamie that the
> > line spacing changes are definitely a problem. However, in light of
> > this, I'm sort of ambivalent about the formatting changes. They
> > certainly look better, and if we had no installed base, I wouldn't
> > hesitate to support them. However, we do have plenty of people with
> > "legacy" AbiWord documents, and we have to be careful about what we do
> > that changes the behavior of those documents. So, what do people
> > think?
> >
>
>Like Jamie and 5 other Word users collaborating on a huge I don't put an
>extra space between paragraphs by default. I would rather have the extra
>control of pressing return twice.
>
>Also some of my old docs now look weird. So I would vote for no extra
>space for "Normal" mode. However we can keep the other nice formatting
>specifications. We just change the appropriate prop to "0"
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
>
>
>
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