Re: Alignment question

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 03:24:20 EDT

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    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.

    >
    > 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



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