Simon Troup wrote:
Is it just me or are the arrows the wrong way around for selecting which
set of lyrics to edit in the edit lyrics dialogue box.
"Wrong" might be a bit extreme, because while I agree that there is an
inconstency in the interace, I submit that it may be an artifact of the
legacy part of the situation. The convention is lyrics is to print
higher numbered stanzas lower, as you note
1. Lyrics 1
2. Lyrics 2
3. Lyrics 3
and indeed the click-assign dialog box, when one moves the slider at the
right hand side down, does place the next lyric below the previous.
But it seems to me that it is a reasonable design choice in editing text
blocks, to expect that if one wants to edit a higher numbered block, to
access it by way of the "up arrow", and to access a lower numbered block
by using the "down arrow", and it appears that he designers of the
interface used the same basic design in the "edit lyrics" and the "edit
text block" dialogs.
Since I don't know any details about the coding, I don't know how hard
it would be to change the order. I know the coding is not identical,
because in the lyrics, one can select the subspace (verse, chorus,
section), and also specify an exact part of the selected subspace (verse
1, chorus 3, &c.), whereas the only way to navigate the text block
dialog, is sequentially by means of the arrows. [NB: Yes, I know one
can select a handle of a text block, and edit that particular block]
ns
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