The ruler has a lot of features. The current ruler is applied to the current paragraph. Each paragraph can have its own ruler. To see the ruler settings applied to a specific paragraph, you just have to click on the paragraph.
Tabs
The word processor uses 5 different kinds of tab stops.
Left Tab
Text is aligned left at the tab stop.
Centre Tab
Text is centered at the tab stop.
Right Tab
Text is aligned right at the tab stop.
Decimal Tab
Text is aligned on the right side from decimal point of the value. This is useful if you want to align decimal values.
Vertical Line Tab
The word processor places a vertical line along the tab stop. This is useful when used with frames allowing you to create presentation tables.
You can set up to 20 tab stops for a ruler. Default tabs are left tabs placed at half inch intervals. If you place your own tab stops all the default tabs are removed between two consecutive custom tab stops.
Justification
The word processor has 4 text justification options.
Flush Justification
Flush justification aligns text simultaneously on both left and right sides of the page. Your text is perfectly aligned to both left and right margins.
Left Justification
This option aligns text along the left margin of the page.
Centre Justification
This option centers the text.
Right Justification
This option aligns text along the right margin of the page.
Line Spacing
You can customize line spacing for the currently selected paragraph, by adding points between lines. The default is 0 corresponding to the basic height of the largest font used in the current line.
Line spacing can be set between 0 and 99 points.
Paragraph Spacing
You can customize paragraph spacing between the previous and the current paragraph by setting points to be added between the paragraphs. The default is 3, corresponding to the height of the first font used in the current paragraph.
Paragraph spacing can be set between 0 and 99 points.
Default Ruler
You can reset the current ruler to the default settings at any time by clicking the X button. Any tabs, justification, line spacing, paragraph spacing, margins, and indents are reset to their default values.
Margins
The word processor uses standard methods to set right and left margins.
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Right and left margin markers are vertical half-arrows that you can move along the ruler. You can also set margins by entering them through the Margins menu item from the Form Letters menu. It is possible to display the Margin window by double clicking on the margin area of the page.
Indents
The word processor uses standard methods to set indents.
The indent marker is a vertical arrow marker initially placed at the same location as the left margin marker. The indent marker sets the amount of indentation of the first line of each paragraph to which it applies.
