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Whups, my 78772 is indeed a dupe. It does contain specific ideas on
implementing this as a UI feature that works with the Styles system, or outside
of it in a way that would not otherwise break styling, so I encourage anyone
working on the code to review it.
...
Shift-Enter has two flaws here: The obvious one is user training, the
less-obvious is that, in my "organization"'s use case, it breaks indentation for
those trained well enough to actually be using paragraph styles for same.
[My use case:]
_Underlined_Heading_in_Contract_Document_
Paragraph containing terms should start indented to match following
paragraphs...
[The idea is that the heading or title line should not widow itself at the end
of the page. There are some ways to correct for this, but most are
time-consuming or relatively 'advanced' for nontechnical users.]
It would be interesting to do some actual usability testing to see how often
people (trained group and naive group) ever drag the margins with intent to edit
the style -- I would guess that users expect horizontal margins to flow through
the document, but are surprised when vertical adjustments hit more than the
visible page.
In fact, use of the vertical ruler to indicate the active page means (even at
some ridiculous, unlikely zoom levels) a user will never, ever, 'see' the impact
occurring across the style until it's applied, making the behavior pretty
non-obvious until documentation is read. -- I *think* that's true now across
all 2.x versions, perhaps a live preview of the reflow would at least hint to
the user what they're doing to previous pages, albeit without resolving the
basic problem?
If the UI promoted styles as being a property of document objects (much as we
think of a font choice as being a property of some text), instead of pages
'belonging to' relatively invisible styles... maybe casual understanding by the
untrained would improve. Tough call, tough problem.
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