I do all of my formating in text edit and all of my html writing in test edit. In fact I have never used a word processer to write a web page. I find it is a lot easer to write in a html editor like text edit.
S On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:21 AM, f10r14n wrote: > Hello Anne and others, > > Let me first say that if Kevin's issues are resolved no longer seems > the general subject of this thread. This is why I jumped in in the > first place. > Let me first disagree with you on one point Anne. Formatting documents > may not be necessary for quick 'n dirty edocument writing, but then > neither is iWork. We have our built-in friend TextEdit for that. > Often though, at schools, wehn writing letters, essays, assignments, > papers, books, readme files, websites, articles, blog posts, ...... it > is no bad idea to do some formatting on your text. > Headings are certainly important because a lot of screenreaders > provide hotkeys to quickly jump from heading to heading. Putting > headings in your documents therefore cuts back on a lot of unnecessary > reading. > Same goes for lists, they may not be very important for us visually > impaired people, but they certainly are for people who can see the > screen and any eventual print-outs of what you are writing. And this > is coming from someone who hates having to adhere to sighted people. > > So saying formatting is only for the very professional is just not > true. > Also, if you come from a Windows world, naturally you are first going > to try what works and what doesn't from a windows perspective. This is > of course not the way to go, but you do it anyway. Its a basic human > response to first try what they are familiar with , even if it is just > in your mind. > So my initial response would be that there has to be a hotkey to > format headings , like shift+ctrl+1 in Windows. > If or when i later find out this is in fact not so and that there's > quite a bit of work to be done to make one heading appear and i have > to make ten, my initial response would be to say ' Fine, i'll do it in > Windows because it goes ten times faster'. > But to come back on my original point. If his issues are resolved > doesn't seem to be important anymore. All i see is people criticizing > people who criticize voiceOver, which is imho not right. > Look if people are using the mac for their jobs or school and bugs pop > up that hamper them in their productivity, I can very much imagine > them not cheering and jumping for joy about it. > Podcasts like voiceOver On are there to point out these bugs, inform > people having the same problems of possible workarounds if they are > known, or asking if they are not . > They are not in any way to be viewed as some sort of magical law that > states that voiceOver is bad. So, if something is demonstrated in one > of these podcasts, and the bug is clearly shown for what it is, it > makes absolutely no sense at all to blatantly yell ' USER ERROR!' > without explaining yourself. > Anne did a very good job at this, providing solutions that she is > comfortable with. I commend her for that. And I can imagine people > being bothered by seeing the same questions over and over. But do > everyone a favor and do not respond with useless info if that is the > case. You will cut back on list traffic and also on a lot of > frustration from the initial poster's perspective. If iWork works > well, just say so. Say what is wrong in the assumptions of a post like > Kevin's initial one, point out solutions but don't go all ' VoiceOver > is holy' because that just doesn't help anyone. > > Sorry for the long rant but I just see this happen more and more often > and I really see no point to it. > > Florian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
