Subject: Re: normal mode wish list
From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 13:22:03 CST
I'd like to echo Dennis' comments about normal mode. I'd also like to see
an option to select a "draft" font for use in normal mode, a la MS-Word.
When using Word in normal mode, I edit using a Courier New font, which for
me, is easier to use while editing text on screen. When I switch back to
print mode, I can see the font that will actually be printed. It's a nice
feature that I would like to see added to normal mode. But, I realize that
now the focus is on fixing bugs for version 1.0, so please just file this
request in the back of your post 1.0 release files.
Virgil
>From: Dennis Collins <dmccollins@attbi.com>
>To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>Subject: normal mode wish list
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:51:58 -0800
>
>The following is my wish list for normal mode (not a criticism). I'm using
>0.9.6 on win32.
>
>In Microsoft Word (and StarOffice Text Processor 6.0 beta) the sole purpose
>of normal mode is to input and polish text. To that end all page formatting
>is hidden as are any graphics and any headers or footers. All that is
>visible is text and it is wrapped to the window size whether that size is
>larger or smaller than the page size (the paragraph is wrapped as it is in
>page formatting, not line wrapped as in a plane text processor like MS
>notepad). The left margin (the area between the window edge and the first
>character on the line) is only about 4 characters wide as is the right (4
>characters to the left of the vertical scroll bar). This allows the user to
>see all of the text regardless of the window width and it maximizes the
>amount of visible text without paging or scrolling. This facilitates the
>user's focus on the task of inputting and polishing text (character
>formatting and some paragraph formatting remain visible fonts, italics,
>bold, underline, font color, background color, indents,
>left/right/center/justification, line spacing, superscript, subscript and
>so forth).
>
>Thus: reduce margins to absolute minimum (2 or 3 characters at most)
>wrap paragraphs to the window not the page (or make it optional)
>hide page formatting, graphics, headers and footers
>
>If all of this is already planned then all the better. My thanks to the
>programmers and I look forward to each new release.
>
>Dennis Collins
>
>
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