On 1/15/03 8:28 PM, "Nigel Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:39 pm +1100 16/1/03, Brian Ferguson wrote: >> On January 15 2003, Geoffrey Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> At 9:11 PM +1300 15/1/03, Nigel Perry wrote: >>>> At 6:43 pm +1100 15/1/03, Brian Ferguson wrote: >>>>> Valuable things I noted were that Services would be supported and >>>>> there is a lovely little button labelled *Rulers*. >>>> >>>> in fact I'll willing trade a font size slider for just about anything. >>> >>> NOT font size sliders? You have to be joking! >>> >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >> ========= >> >> Yes, font sliders, and a big advantage on going to the menu bar all >> the time. At last you can see the font > > Why am I going to the menu all the time? Why am I changing the font > size all the time? Don't I just select my pre-defined paragraph style > and get on with writing the document? > > Font sliders are for ad-hoc documents formatted on the fly - and it > help those docs be more ad hoc than ever. > > For structured documents you use styles, and if the paragraph style > is wrong you go and edit it and *all* uses of it update. Awfully narrow minded about font use Nigel. Some of us have *need* of more than one font in a given paragraph so paragraph styles alone won't do it. Example: in writing about biblical and rabbinic material, not only do I frequently intermix Hebrew and English text (not a real problem with fonts) but I also have to use transliteration fonts and other special fonts that use the western encoding (i.e., I can't just change the keyboard). Now I currently use a key command to get the font I want (cmd-J for Jaghbub), but sometimes fonts like the transliteration font Jaghbub look a lot like Times and I cannot be sure that I am using the correct font without going to the menu. Also, spaces occasionally get misassigned fonts. I don't want to apply a font change to the whole paragraph (let along every paragraph in the document that shares its style!). And so on.... Graphical user interface was created for a reason... It can be abused, but this is NOT one of those instances (I do not like multiple tool bars, but I can turn them off). Yours, Chris --------------------------------------------------- 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]
