From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 03:24:20 EDT
On Fri, 24 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> I've been wondering if a couple of things are
> possible in AbiWord and how to achieve them.  If
> they are not possible yet I'll submit RFEs.
> 
> It's often desirable to have part of a line of text
> left-aligned and part right-aligned.  This is common
> in the contents and index pages of books.  When we
> have tables there will be a table-abuse way to do this
> but is there a way now?  Perhaps with some kind of
> special tab?
Yes. Use a right aligned TAB to do this. It left hard at all with left and
right aligne tabs.
  Left TAB                                   Right TAB
  Here->                                       Here->
 <TAB>  1. Chapter 1  <TAB>                          1 
 <TAB>  2. Chapter 2  <TAB>                         20
 <TAB>  3. Chapter 3  <TAB>                         35
AbiWord does this already. We also have tab leader support too, so you
you filling hte gaps with ".","-","_" or other chars. plam did this work.
> 
> An enhancement of the above also in contents pages of
> magazines and books is to fill the intervening space
> between the left and right with a line of period
> characters.  Does any word processor support this?
> It would be very useful.
> 
We do :-) Look at tab leaders.
Cheers
Martin
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