Subject: Re: Normal mode nitpick
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 07:55:42 CST
According to Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>:
> What are you suggesting? That columns should should not be layed
> out across the page? I don't think that makes sense. The main advantage of
> normal mode is to get more text on the screen. Turning off column layout
> stops abiword from being a WYSIWYG word processor.
>
> There is no page frame in abi's "Normal" mode, just a light grey line to
> show where one page ends and the next begins. What are you suggesting
> here?
Simple.
Start MS Word, (even version 2000), open a big doc, switch to Normal mode.
That is what I think shoudl be done. Perhaps with little enhancement, but
you get the idea.
Normal mode is supposed to be a compromise beetween WYSIWYG and plain text.
It is intendend for those that write miles of text without caring of page
layout (because it will be done by someone else in the publishing dept.) but
care of having styles and space preserved.
On this Word is doing the right thing for years. I even remember MS-Word 3
that had to page view, only Normal mode view.
LyX is doing it correctly too.
> Regarding editing header/footers in normal mode, I really don't see that
> we need to do anything other than what Dom has done. If you want to edit
> them, switch to print view and edit them in place.
No. Header/footers are content and it may be useful to edit them without
switching Page view mode. I think that my splitted pane idea, or a separate frame
is a good idea when in Normal mode. I know that this is harder to implement.
Hub
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