On (13:17 31/10/08), Martin Sevior <martines@unimelb.edu.au> put forth the proposition:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 02:06 +0000, Dave Wood wrote:
> > On (01:51 31/10/08), Dave Wood <dave@unrealize.co.uk> put forth the proposition:
> > >
> > > I've noticed that if I make a simple footer with just page numbers the
> > > footer takes up 2 lines. When I open the same rtf in open office the footer
> > > takes only one line and puts the pages 'out' by a few lines.
> > >
> > > Is there someway of changing footer height?
> > >
> > > Abiword 2.7.0 from svn
> >
> > Ok I think I have solved this - OO bottom margin for A4 is 1.27cm while
> > Abiword uses 2.54cm all round.
> >
> > Does anyone know which is correct? Is there some standard for margins
> > around? Also does anyone have MS Word handy and could check what default
> > margins are for A4?
> >
> > Thanks for any info about this. Not a huge problem but want to make sure
> > that my assignments look ok.
> >
>
> Hi Dave,
> MS Word standard headers and footers for letter and A4 sizes
> are 1 inch (2.54 cm). You can easily change your abiword header and
> footer sizes in the page setup dialog (under file).
Great. Thanks for the info.
>
> BTW if you working from SVN trunk and intend to use maths in your
> assignment, update your build to a commit I just made a few minutes ago
> that fixes drawing of math equations.
No I'm just doing normal text for now - a creative writing course.
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
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