Hi there Esther, I can do everything but move the left margin to the right less than one inch and the right margin to the right less than for a one inch margin. I tried creating a document in pages the way I want it, then saved it and then tried to open it in TextEdit to check out the margins; I could not save the document in Pages as a rich text document and when I tried to open it in TextEdit it would only open as a PDA thumbnail..
I am thinking that TextEdit just won't let me create margins that are less than one inch from the sides or top or bottom. Tom Frank vermont...@gmail.com On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
