Re: format choices

Donald,

Confirmed. I tried out all the operations I described before, without 
anything affecting the entries in the drop-down style menu. Either those 
entries are hardwired into Abiword, or they are lodged in a 
configuration file I've yet to discover the location of.

The configuration of the list has changed since I recall earlier 
versions of Abiword as having much briefer and simpler listings in the 
drop-down menu. It might be a matter of getting a developer to notice 
the question again.

If this is a deal-breaker for you, I'd suggest returning to your 
original post and giving it a bump to attract the attention of a 
developer. (We've already hijacked James's thread enough.)

I'll keep poking around in the Help files to see if anything touches on 
this.

--Mark

Donald Miller wrote:
>
> Hello Mark
>
> Tried it. Delete does nothing.
>
> Regards,
>   Don Miller   [email protected]
> ======================================
> Saturday, January 19, 2013, 8:39:34 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Don,
>
>> I never mess with styles, so I can't speak from experience. Take what I
>> say with a grain of salt until someone with experience chimes in. In
>> the meantime: Open Abiword, click on the Format drop-down menu, click
>> on the last item (in my version): "Create and Modify Styles." The
>> interface that opens gives you a menu of all the styles available to
>> you ("In Use," "All," and "User Defined").
>
>> Here you can modify or delete styles from any of the groupings. You may
>> be able to merely define your own styles, or delete from the "All"
>> group to suit your taste. What I don't know is how these changes will
>> affect the drop-down style menu next to the font menu. If you feel
>> like taking a chance, you could alter that "All" selection by deleting
>> what you don't want. Click "apply." Close and reopen Abiword.
>
>> Another possibility is to perform this operation on a template used to
>> store all modifications you make to "normal.awt" stored in
>> usr/share/abiword/templates for system-wide changes, or in your home
>> directory for user-specific changes (assuming you're running Linux).
>
>> I've never heard of anyone wanting to do this before, and the menu
>> itself may be hardwired into Abiword. But practically everything is
>> configurable, and what I'm describing is how I'd go about it (if no
>> one else seemed able to give me directions).
>
>> Good luck.
>
>> --Mark
>
>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:24:36 -0700
>> Donald Miller<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Hello James
>>>
>>> I want to use defined normal, head 1, head 2, blocktext, chptr head,
>>> none of the other 31/36.
>>> The others are getting in my way, are easy to hit by accident, waste
>>> much time undoing and getting back on track.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Don Miller   [email protected]
>>> ======================================
>>> Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:36:13 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Donald Miller
>>>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Abiword-user
>>>>>
>>>>> Never got an answer, so re-ask.
>>>>> In the format window, left of font selector, is there any way to
>>>>> display ONLY the options I want to see? Present clutter is very
>>>>> distracting, and constantly forcing choices I never want.
>>>
>>>> Perhaps like others i don't follow what you're asking? The interface
>>>> is clear, not clutter and not very distracting. Follows similar with
>>>> LO-writer and other apps.
>>>
>>>> james
>>>
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