On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Amir Karger wrote:
> I agree that it's illogical that when you change docs or paragraphs or
> whatever the dialogs don't notice.
>
> On the other hand, lets say I want to take 10 different paragraphs and add a
> space after each and make some other changes. (Answer: I should use LaTeX
> code to change spacing. But let's imagine I can't or don't know how to do
> that for some reason.) I would probably want to change the paragraph dialog
> once, then switch to another paragraph and hit Apply again, etc. But I won't
> be able to do that this way. Character Layout is another place this might
> happen.
>
> So on the one hand, dialogs should update to reflect the current state of
> whatever paragraph they're in. On the other, they shouldn't. Unfortunately,
> I don't see a solution, since the two things obviously contradict each
> other.
Excuse me for popping into the discussion a week late.
I happen to like the ability to leave my dialogs open and to not have them
change automatically. What if you put a new button in the dialog that
would update the dialog to reflect the underlying layout? I'm not sure of
a good name though: 'update', 'refresh' ??
Benjamin Karas
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