Re: format choices

Hello Mark

"giving it a bump" means?

Regards,
 Don Miller damiller2@gmail.com
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Sunday, January 20, 2013, 1:51:10 PM, you wrote:

> 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 damiller2@gmail.com
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>> 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<damiller2@gmail.com> 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 damiller2@gmail.com
>>>> ======================================
>>>> Saturday, January 19, 2013, 2:36:13 PM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Donald Miller
>>>>> <damiller2@gmail.com> 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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