Re: auto formatting

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, El Moataz Bellah Ashraf wrote:

> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:16:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: El Moataz Bellah Ashraf <goodfella_no4@yahoo.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: auto formatting
>

What version of abiword are you using and on what Operating System?
(I'm guessing Windows, and I'm hoping you are using the latest version of
Abiword.)

> Whenever I try to open a document in AbiWord, it
> automatically transforms into Times New Roman font
> with size 12. Is there a way to stop this?

There are some known issues with defaulting to Time New Roman and there
were very old issues with the infrastructure which were decpetively
difficult to fix. If you take the time to search through our bug tracker
you might be able to find the relevant issue.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com

> Also I have some ebooks from Project Gutenberg, these books use symbols
> for italics and underline.

What do you mean symbols? (Okay so you do explain this later)

Where can we find a standard reference listing all the symbols used?
(Please provide a link if you can.)

> Is there a specific symbol or shortcut in Abiword that I can order it to
> replace the original symbols with it, so that they can be viewed and
> printed in the same look that the authors intended them to be?

> for example (_Anton Chekhov_) is supposed to be shown
> in italics according to the original intended text. I
> don't see it in italics, how can I change this?

Very odd. I have seen systems which use _underlines_ /italics/ and *bold*
markup and abiword even includes an exporter for that kind of Human
Readable ASCII markup (see the extra plugins) but we do not currently
include any kind of an importer for that. It would not be impossible to
add such an importer but there has never been much demand for it and no
developers have volunteered to do it but if someone was willing to do the
work and write the neccessary code I think it would be accepted.

> Thanks for that great free program.

Thanks for choosing abiword.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Sat Nov 5 21:09:50 2005