https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172154
Bug ID: 172154
Summary: Document views 2 or 3?
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.8.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
> copy-pasted into a Writer document, this text can be viewed better...
hi,
The documentation, on page 28 (Writer Guide 26.2),
says there are 3 possible views, viewing modes (of a document):
Normal View
Web View
Full Screen
I think this is wrong.
In reality, there are two views in the View menu:
Normal (view)
Web (view)
The 3rd menu item below these 2 is Page Layout.
_ _ _ _ _ the problems:
This text is wrong:
"Writer has three ways to view and edit a document: Normal, Web, and Full
Screen. To change the view, go to the View menu and select the required view."
Wrong concept,
cause it says 3 ways to view and edit a document.
Viewing and editing are 2 different things, right? :)
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Please, don't take it as criticism! I am aware that Libreoffice is enormous!
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Full Screen is a different thing,
as it can be had in both viewing modes: Normal, Web...
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## SUGGESTION:
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Writer offers you two views as you're working on your document:
Normal
Web
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Suggestion within this:
the menu item: "Normal" should be at least referenced as "Document view",
like Normal (aka Document view)
Like:
Normal view
Normal view (aka Document view) is the default view in Writer.
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Suggestion within this:
This block in the guide could be called:
Viewing modes.
## SUGGESTION #2:
### "Web view
Web view shows how the document will look if viewed in a Web browser; this is
useful when creating HTML documents"
Should be replaced with something like:
Web view
In this view, the text goes wall to wall, that is, without horizontal
positioning, margins and page breaks. This is the free view of your text, with
only headings and paragraphs. This is how your text would look in HTML without
styling, setting width for the various text blocks. Writer users will typically
use this view in order to see the text as paragraphs and headings, and when
they want to copy-paste paragraphs and headings into a blog post.
This view gives you a good approximation as to how your document will look as
markdown.
## Suggestion #3:
The next block after "Viewing modes" could be:
Document previews
::: explanation /
Sure, if "Document previews" is a good term, then "Document views"
offer itself as symmetric title, to make them a pair.
BUT...
"a preview" exists as a thing, while a document view doesn't.
A view of a city exists as a thing, too. But a document is ongoing
work, not something that someone has created and we only open it for viewing.
Note, right now the Guide talks about viewing and editing a document.
This is a made-up "notion"..
When the user opens a document, viewing it goes without saying,
not editing, cause it is a read-only document, is a special case. A
special case of editing.
::: / end of explanation
So, the next block could be: Document previews.
Preview in Browser
Print Preview (aka PDF Preview)
:::
## Yet another section / block / heading here:
### Full Screen mode
In Writer, you can easily switch to "Full Screen" mode, which is basically a
menuless working mode, like in so many applications around the globe. The only
thin that's special in Writer with Full Screen mode is that there is a tiny
floating "menu" icon, "Full Screen" which you can press when you want to exit
this viewing mode.
BTW, it should have the label: "switch back" or "exit full screen".
::::::::::::::
AND then:
### "Page layout"
I mean,
View / "Page Layout"
Instead of "Page Layout" (which is not a viewing mode but the document's actual
structure), "Page arrangement" would be better, or something.
::
In the menu,
These 3 modes should open from "Normal".
If Normal is selected, these 3 could be selected, opening from Normal).
These should change together with the icons used to witch to these page
arrangement modes in the statusbar...
## Previews
I mean, the next block in the Guide could be "Previews"...
(a new version instead of "Previewing pages before printing" on page 176)
The text should start with explaining that the normal document view
offers a view really close to how it will appear in PDF format or printed in
Paper. However, oftentimes the user needs to see exactly what it would look
like. This is what Print preview (aka PDF view) offers.
This would be crucial, as most people don't ever print, but send PDF
oftentimes,
and would be happy to learn that they can preview the PDF before actually
exporting.
Okay: I wrote too much, SORRY!! :)
I meant it to be short suggestion, but Writer is complex.
Peter
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