Re: Alignment question

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 02:10:56 EDT

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    On Sun, 26 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:

    > --- Martin Sevior
    > <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
    > >
    > > 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.
    >
    > This is perfect! Is there a way to set a tab to
    > always be the rightmost edge of the document so that
    > if the document size changes, the tab is always at
    > the edge? I guess I want a right-relative tab instead
    > of a left-relative tab.
    >

    Not yet :-) Feel free to implement it when you get the chance.

    Cheers

    Martin



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