On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 12:01 US/Pacific, David W. Fenton wrote: >>> Why would anyone *not* normally use pageup/pagedown to navigate >>> within a text box? Hello?
>> Because that's not the convention on Macintosh. It's more efficient >> to use the Option-Arrow key combos. > It's more efficient to press two keys instead of one? The problem with this question is it's distinct lack of scope. Obviously, if the only thing you want to do is scroll a page and have the cursor follow then pressing one key will do. The efficiency becomes apparent when one has to do more than scroll--as when actually editing a document. The navigation and selection work is all done in the arrow area: there is no necessity to jump back and forth between the page keys area and the arrows area to attain the functionality. One thing that occurs to me is that you might not be familiar with Macintosh keyboards and the use of the Command key in Macintosh applications. It is our main modifier key. In this respect, Windows users suffer because they don't have the advantage of the extra modifier key and of course M$ keyboard combinations are limited compared to the Mac. I refer once again to the PDF documentation for Text Editor available on my site. The navigation and selection key combinations are in a table and you can scan them quickly to get an idea of what us Mac users are familiar with. Another thing is that there are several Mac keyboards that don't have the page keys. Most notably on some PowerBooks and the "Standard" keyboards from the ADB era (which also didn't have function keys). It is essential that Mac applications support the arrow key shortcuts but they can optionally support the Windows type combos. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
