I agree with Chis and Bob Waltz. NW users expliot it's featureset for specific purposes and that places a premium on making it as broad as possible.
Maybe a Chracter Styles feature will be included in NW at a future date, a la InDesign 2.0, for those who use NW as editors or for placing foreign language text in English body text. As it is, NW is a pretty awsome application. I'm looking forward to the OS X version and trust it will be a chip off the old, and faithful, log. Bill "Christian M. M. Brady" wrote: > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------- 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]
