2012/5/12 Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net>: > +1. > Seems very logical indeed. > The "Page break" label should be visible somewhere in line with the PB > location. Do you mean it should be in the margin?
Not necessarily: I put it to the left mainly to avoid clash with notes (they are always to the right), but moving the label near to the text area for a more compact design is a good idea. > A hot spot that opens the attributes by double-click would improve th user > experience to change page numbers, page styles, ... Indeed!! Ricardo > Hagar > > Le sam. 12 mai 2012 16:40:27 CEST, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > >> I would like to ask you for feedback on this idea, to know if you >> think it is good or bad and why, and finally if you think it is >> feasible. >> >> Writer shows page breaks (PB) with a line on top of next page's text >> area. LyX shows PB with a line crossing the page on the insertion >> point with the text "Page break" on the middle of it. These different >> approaches can be more or less useful, but both are conceptually >> wrong: >> >> PB are not about breaking pages, but about breaking *text >> flow* and sending content to the next page. >> >> So PB should be an attribute of the object (a paragraph, a table) that >> actually breaks content flow. Writer already work that way: on the >> paragraph format (both direct and style) or table properties we have a >> "text flow" tab that allows us to define breaks, either before or >> after the object, either with or without page style change. >> >> Considering all this, I believe PB should be shown on the same object >> that creates the break, and on the object side where break occurs: >> this way, PB display will be consistent with the way PB works on >> Writer. >> >> See here for a lousy mock-up: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~rgb-es/PageBreaks3.png >> >> What do you think? >> >> Regards >> Ricardo >> >
