Re: Section properties


Subject: Re: Section properties
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 03:43:04 CDT


According to Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu>:

> > Is it me or there is no section properties dialog ?
>
> What section properties would you like to make editable by the user? AFAIK,
> there are none that we'd want to, really. We do indirectly support editing some
> section properties, but there is no "section properties" dialog. I don't think
> that we need/want one either. Right now you can change section-related stuff
> through one of the following interfaces:
>
> Page Numbers Dialog
> Headers/Footers
> Columns Dialog/Toolbar

First page different
Last page different
Facing pages
Margins (per section)
Page numbering reset
Page numbering format
Changing the section break (for example, from new page to new odd page, etc)

Actually, there are several things (if not all) that are not supported yet
in AbiWord. But IMHO there should be a section properties dialog.

This is not a trivial thing.

Hub



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Tue Jun 12 2001 - 03:44:12 CDT