Re: Two simpl questions

"it would surpise me if you really wanted to write an entire document in
bold face" commented Alan.
I use reading glasses and I've been writing all my text in bold for two or
three years now to reduce eye strain and I would never go back to regular
:).

I use both Abiword and Netscape Composer (it's a wysiwyg webpage editor) to
compose text. When I open a new Composer file I instruct Composer to show
the source code for editing and I add the following code near the top and at
the bottom of the body code:
<span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span style="font-weight: bold;">
Maybe there's a similar code that can be added to Abiword files (opening
them in Notepad or similar program to add the code) rather than fiddling
around with the normal.awt file? (I know nothing about Abiword code).
Cheers,
Ed.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Horkan" <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
To: "Walter Blum" <walterblum@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: "Abiword is Awesome" <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: Two simpl questions

>
>
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Walter Blum wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:24:53 -0700
>> From: Walter Blum <walterblum@worldnet.att.net>
>> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
>> Subject: Re: Two simpl questions
>>
>> Alan Horkan wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Depending on what you mean there are various ways this
>> > could be achieved. Modifying the default template
>> > Normal.awt is probably the easiest.
>> > http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtonormaltemplate.html
>
> Only able to direct you to the FAQ, if that doesn't work not sure what
> else to do. I did try messing around manually editing the Normal.awt but
> it didn't work for me in my few quick attempts but perhaps someone else
> might explain whatever trick we are missing.
>
>
> It might also help to know the reason you are trying to do this (it would
> surpise me if you really wanted to write an entire document in bold face).
> If for example it is perhaps because you find the default font sizes too
> small and hard to read it might be an Accessibility problem which could be
> better solved in another way.
>
>> >> Can I change the Insert key so it becomes a Paste
>> >> command, as it does in MS Word?
>
>> > The Insert key behaves in Abiword the same as it behaves
>> > in Microsoft Word and practically every other other
>> > application in Windows. This has nothing to do with
>> > Abiword.
>> >
>> > If you wish to paste text into any application in
>> > Microsoft Windows one of the ways you can do so by
>> > holding Shift and then pressing Insert.
>
>> Well, I didn't know this.
>
> I'm surprised you knew enough of the possibility to ask the question but
> it is an ancient legacy thing (from Word Perfect I suspect).
>
>> Actually, MS Word lets you change the INSERT key to a Paste key. The
>> INSERT key has always been a damned nuisance because when you
>> accidentally hit it, you get Overstrike instead. However, everywhere
>> else in Windows Shift Insert does that quite nicely.
>
> There have been various suggestions about how we might avoid that
> nuisance, and offering to remap the Insert key to Paste would certainly be
> one way to at least hide the problem.
> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/FaqWhyIsMyTextOverwrittenAsIType
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7071
>
> --
> Alan
>
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