[softwarelist] Re: naming a new master page in OPro

Gav wrote on 20 Jun:
> There's my PageSize applet that will do exactly what you want.

excellent; thanks, Gavin.
i installed it and did it.  doesnt say in so many words in the manual 
how to save the newly named pages into the default document, and i 
floundered around for a while.  then i think i discovered that this 
appears to happen automagically.  am i right?


OK, i went through all umpteen chapters of the book and set each one 
of them to be on Demi page size.  this was a bit tedious, because:

(a) in masterpage view, the page numbers or chapter numbers do not 
seem to display meaningfully, or take a while to respond, and it's 
hard to tell that you've done them all when the change is a matter of 
only a few mm.
   isn't there a way of doing this operation on all the chapters at 
once?

(b) the dialogue disappears each time you click OK -- even if you do 
it with Adjust -- and you have to go through several menu levels to 
get it up again, for umpteen chapters

(c) having done all this at last, i closed the masterpage window and 
OPro seemed to hang.  no sign of activity, no response from menu 
button or anything.  went off for tea.  came back and was glad to find 
the job had actually happened.  does it normally take this long?

note that i made no change to the frames holding the text, only to the 
dimensions of the page.  i dread to think how long the update is going 
to take when i do change these frames to suit the new margins and 
cause all the text to re-flow.  is this a fair assumption?


> Available from crawford-print.co.uk

just by the way, Gavin, this produces a message from Gradwell (your 
host) saying you should configure your control panel so that your 
domain works with or without the megamouthful "www."   (see edrant in 
Archive 22:3)


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Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
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