Since it's an order, I had some money figures to add, and I wanted the decimal
points to line up. I tried to set a decimal tab stop, but it didn't work and
was set only for the line I set it on. (I suppose that the button in the upper
left corner of the document is the kind of tab stop. It's L, backward L,
upside-down T, or Chinese up, the last being the decimal tab.)
Another feature I could have used is tables. I had lines like
WX-25 Widget 3 $15.40 $46.20
which I'd like to be able to put in a table. This would also be useful for
invoices.
A problem I had with the previous version I was using, but not with this one,
is that the PostScript output of tabulated text didn't match the on-screen
display. I've had that problem with invoices and Toastmasters agendas. I don't
know if 0.7.6 has the problem, as I just upgraded and haven't done an invoice
yet.
Also, the machine at the office is a Windows box and has a different set of
fonts than my Linux box here. But I also have a full set of TrueType fonts
(from when my desktop machine here was running Windows) available both on port
7100 and through nfs. I'd like to be able to use them in AbiWord. It seems to
me that fonts in Linux are more complicated than they need to be and not well
documented; I still have not succeeded in printing TrueType fonts in
Ghostscript.
phma