Hi Tom, Steve, Jonathan, and Mark,
Steve's correct that you can set the left and right margins in
TextEdit (in Rich Text Mode) by interacting with the head indent ruler
marker and tail indent ruler marker and moving them to the desired
positions. As a general comment, you can save any changes that you
make as a customized style.
To save this as a style file, interact with the Styles popup button in
the ruler and select "Other". Then press the "Add to favorites" button
and supply a name for the style. You can also check any of the boxes
for "Include the ruler as part of the style" or "include the font as
part of the style". If you set up the spacing popup button to be
double spaced, I think that also gets saved. Then, if you ever want
to create a document in this style, when you open a new TextEdit
document, start by navigating to the Styles popup button, press VO
+Space, and select the style you saved before starting to input your
text.
Incidentally, a good way to figure out how these features work is to
open a rich text format document with the settings you want, and
examine the ruler marker spacings. You could also save it directly as
a style file, with the option of choosing a specific text font (which
might not carry over from your original document). To see an example
of how this worked out for figuring out tabs, you can read the
archived post from the old list, on "Inserting Tabs in TextEdit with
VoiceOver":
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg46637.html
Use Control+N to read down the next post in the thread in Safari, and
Control+P to read previous posts.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 29, 2010, at 23:43, Steve Griffiths wrote:
I think I've managed to do this. Here are the steps I went through;
you may of course be set to inches rather then centimetres.
Select everything in the document with Cmd-A.
VO-left arrow to the ruler and interact with it.
VO-right arrow to "0.00 centimetres head indent ruler marker" and
interact with it.
VO-right arrow to change it by 0.1 centimetres, or VO-Shift-right
arrow to change it by 0.01 centimetres.
When I've got that where I want it, stop interacting with it.
VO-left arrow to "0.00 centimetres first line indent ruler marker".
Change that to the same distance as the first ruler marker.
VO-right arrow past all the "left tab stops" to "31.75 centimetres
tail indent ruler marker".
Interact with it and move it to the left.
Does that work for you? And do what you want?
I don't know how to set this as the default.
Steve
On 29 Nov 2010, at 22:23, Tom Frank wrote:
Hi there,
I've tried, and so has my sighted wife but with no success. I can
adjust left and right first line indents, body indents and tab
stops, but not the margins.
If anybody knows how to adjust the margins, I could use detailed
instructions on how to do it
Tom Frank
vermont...@gmail.com
On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
I believe the margins for left and right can be modified in the
ruler.
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