Subject: Re: Normal mode nitpick
From: Nikolaj Brandt Jensen (mailbag@postman.dk)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 16:29:26 CST
On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:16:55 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Randy.
>No need to disagree ;-) Basically (and I think it's come out in this
>thread), Normal mode is WYSIWYG except for columns, the "borders" of the
>page, and a few other things, one being an *option* to "wrap to window"
>to avoid the need for horizontal scrolling. (The wrap to window option
>doesn't handle everything, for example, it won't wrap wide tables to the
>width of the window, but other text in the same document will wrap
>within the window.)
Sounds wonderful!
>> I find the Print mode rather annoing. It wastes far too much space on
>> borders. Also, probably due my strange way of reading where the cursor
>> is nowhere near the linie I am currently reading, the 'jump' that
>> happens when the cursor moves to the next page means I lose track of
>> where I am in the text.
>
>I have trouble like that in web browsers and so forth, haven't noticed
>it in AbiWord -- I'll have to try reading more.
Its not a bug, simply a mismatch in the way I use any program for
reading and the way most layout-oriented programs work.
| text.....
| my eyes are reading this line of text...
| text...
| the cursor in on this line of text...
+----------------------- page break
| text...
| text....
In this case, when i press LineDown, the cursor jumps to the first
line on the next page. Since the area between the bottom line on one
page and the top line on the next page is so large, most program
scroll the page up so much that the text I am reading 'jumps' to the
top of the screen or even outside the screen:
| text....
+----------------------- page break
| the cursor in on this line of text and the linie I was reading is gone...
| text...
| text...
| text...
If you get the picture...
>PS: By the way, are you still periodically compiling AbiWord for windows
>and putting it on your website? I'd like to download a new copy, but I
>archived a bunch of mail including your website address.
Yes, http://www.niksbiks.dk/Abi/ gets updated every few days.
Lately, though, I have had quite a few problems, either compiling
succefully or getting a working program. There has been some talk
about a feature-freeze, and I thing it would be a good idea. I am a
bit worried that quality is dropping now, instead of raising. This is
not to knock all of you guyes coding, you are doing a terrific job.
But I think we have make a choice, do we aim for a 'perfect' version
1.0 soonish or do we improve/expand the program with each new
sub-version and simply point the users to the 'last known good'
version. There is nothing worng with either approach, but we cannot do
both.
And I know perfecly well it is more fun to tinker with cool new stuff,
than to find obscure error :-)
- Nikolaj
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