Re: Two simpl questions

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Koala wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:17:47 +0930
> From: Koala <koala@internode.on.net>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Two simpl questions
>
>
> "it would surpise me if you really wanted to write an entire document in
> bold face" commented Alan.

I mentioned accessibility. My vision is fine at the moment but I can very
much empathise with users who have different vision requirements. My
point is that you don't want the document to be bold, you want it to be
clearer and easier to edit for you (and most likely you don't want to
impose your choices of larger font or bold or the people who will be
reading your work).

Wanting to view and edit a document using larger/clearer/whatever fonts
for accessibility reasons unrelated to whatever final results you want is
quite a different problem to solve.

Abiword is designed to be a WYSIWIG word processor: What You See Is What
You Get. Accessibility is of course very important but a slightly
different problem which conflicts with what abiword is designed for.

With a better understanding of your underlying problem the Abiword
developers might be able to suggest alternative solutions (an onscreen
magnifier perhaps, or the increase font size shortcut, or, or ...) which
might suit you just as well.

Best of luck

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Apr 9 04:10:44 2008