Re: format choices

>> developer. (We've already hijacked James's thread enough.)

Carry on no worries! In the good old days (like on the films!) i'd
have demanded a "Duel at Dawn".

james

>
>> 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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