On October 16 2002, Geoffrey Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 12:35 PM +1000 16/10/02, Brian Ferguson wrote: >> >>9. Hooray. OC has the ability to set Paragraph Spacing; normal, >>space-above and space-below. NW lacks all three. > >Que? That little window at the right of the toolbar, Brian? Gives >space above in whatever measurement you designate -- auto (points), >line (lines) or fixed (interesting). What's "normal". Since you can >go from zero to whatever in either of the first two options, that's >fine. Very occasionally, I might want to use a space below but it is >not a big deal for me. --- Space-before and space-after are very useful adjustments for a nice looking document where headings are involved. The right-hand box you mention merely increases/decreases the space between paragraphs. When I set a heading or section paragraph I like to set the spacing above and below the heading to different values - a greater space above the heading than below. Nisus will only allow adjustment of space above. Doing this allows the spacing of body text paragraphs to be set constant and not have to fiddle with the space before the first paragraph. If you cannot follow this, don't worry. It is a feature of page layout. The effect would be most valuable if you can set a heading Style which gives more space above than below. I don't think NW can do this; yet... (: ======== >Hardly use space below in PageMaker either, except when working with graphics. > >I agree about the mad insistence of high-end WP programmers to put >print, save, etc. symbols in as toolbar (although I have to admit >that one of my clients uses it all the time -- but then she is on >Macrosomthing Weird on a Persiflage Confuser). > >In AppleWorks, you can designatve what you want in the toolbar. Good. === Yeah, but then you never know what happens in AW when you change things like tabs or indents for one paragraph. You usually get the whole document altered. Customising in the new NWX will follow I'm sure. ----- I forgot one major annoyance of Composer. At last we have Apple realising that the rest of the world users A4 paper size. All we need now is that millimetres be used either as an alternative to centimetres or used together. As small units, a centimetre is too large and the decimal point is frustrating. Also, unless the user is a typesetter, points and picas are a bit hard to get one's mind correctly placed. ================================= Regards from Brian Ferguson Mac OS X 10.2.1 & Nisus Email X 1.6.1 ================================= --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
