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#Ppage outdents be hanged

    03-Jan-93 16:00:10
Fm: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
To: JAN SIMON 76054,3453
Jan, Yeah, and yes. It would be wonderful to have the TAB on left, right, center and decimal (or any character) tab alignment, like QuarkXpress, and Pagemaker. How about the TAB setting box that opens up? That is handy too! For the 1., 10., and right justify desired need, well how about adding a third tab and use the second TAB to move the single digit numbers over a bit to align with the period of the double-digit number? Using picas it is about 0.60 of one pica so the TABS would be 3.0 and 3.60 and 4.80 , or 0.50, 0.5833, and 0.7778, if the hanging was set to 0.7778. It isn't as clean a way to do it, but it seems to work. I also would like the ease those programs have for positioning guide lines by dragging them out of the rulers and the resetting of the rulers' 0 position by draging out the crosshairs from the upper left-hand corner. It would be nice if PPage's Block ON would allow for reversed (right to left, bottom to top) blocking of text too, instead of only left to right, top to bottom. The Article Editor allows for it. How about more standardization of keyboard equivalents between PPage, PDraw and AE? Well maybe version 4.0 will answer our cries. Although in my case I have to shell out another $75 buckeroos to find out if the QUIT bug is gone even though I'm only about a month short of the $25 buck upgrade path, AND had complained of the bug since upgrading to 3.0. Well, as long as GD is working on Amiga programs, I intend to give them the support. I would like them to provide a function genie that would strip carriage returns from selected blocks of paragraphs, instead of telling me I the user can write their own ARexx(geine). <sigh> Chris