--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > > > According to Andrew Dunbar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Just check with Mac Word 2001: > > > Normal mode has no pages so page height is > infinite. > > > > Only thin lines to show page break > > > > > Columns are still there but seem to be > bottomless, > > > resulting in all text in the left column! > > > > Idem. No page no column, but text width is kept. > > > > Why show page breaks then?
I guess it's useful even when you don't want the pretty pictures of pages and borders. I'm also guessing there is an option in MSWord to turn them off. Online mode doesn't show them at all. > It would not be that hard to do this in abiword but > I really don't see the > point. If people who just want content don't care > about columns they > shouldn't put columns in their docs. I think the MSWord behaviour (one bottomless, skinny column) is a bug. > To me by far the main benefit of "Normal Mode" is to > give users more > screen space. We should keep as much of WYSIWYG as > possible. There are > other applications deisgned for non-WYSIWYG, like > Lyx. We're a WYSIWYG > app. I think we should stick to that. I think normal mode is for users who use documents on screen a lot but don't print them out. It's what people were used to for the many years before WYSIWYG and it's still better if you don't care about printing. There are other ways of maximising screen space like zooming or hitting the full-screen button. It all seems a bit vague to me really but maybe this stuff is more important to people who use wordprocessors professionally? Personally, I like Online mode and Normal mode when using MSWord and don't like layout mode at all. But I never print. We should just decide whether to copy the defacto standards or do what makes sense to us. Andrew Dunbar. > > > Online mode is also infinite height but columns > goes > > > back to one fullwidth column. If you set > columns to > > > another value in online mode, this puts you back > into > > > Page Layout mode. > > > > Weird. Really. > > > > I agree. > > Martin > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd.
