On 12 Jul 2008, at 10:14 PM, Christopher Reeve wrote:
Perhaps a better idea would be to open up the restriction Skim makes
that you have to select text before you can highlight it, underline
it or strike through it. It took me a little while to figure out
that Skim require you to make the selection first - clearly this is
not intuitive.
Enable the user to select a highlighter and then select text with it
and on the release of the mouse the text is highlighted. Is this not
more standard?
That's basically the way Preview behaves. Personally, I think it is
much less intuitive. Moreover, it takes about twice as many actions in
general to add a note or highlight with this behavior. So in the long
run Skim's behavior is much more efficient. Also I would say that the
connection between a highlight and a text selection should be pretty
obvious.
Another grumble: If I want to, for example, spell check someone's
paper it is far easier to write the correction above the text - just
like I would do by hand. I don't like the yellow Text Tool boxes
much, which you have to move and resize into the margins so that it
does not cover the main text. Too fiddly. Again, Jarnal performs
better here. I think Skim is missing a similar text tool.
Chris.
There has gone a lot of thought into selection, and we've tried to
make it as intuitive and efficient as possible. You can never have
everything. Every choice has a downside to it. Also note that you can
get the note at a different place by not selecting text, in which case
it will be added at the current mouse position.
Moreover, you can get into a note tool mode and add notes directly by
selecting a region or selecting text (depending on the type). Compare
this to preview, where you basically do the same, but unlike Skim you
essentially have to select the note tool mode for every single note or
highlight you have to add. Skim offers you two ways of adding notes,
you just choose the one that fits you best at any moment.
Christiaan
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:10:48 +0200
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] apply last action with middle mouse
button - keeps your left hand free for coffee drinking
I'd say that would me more a function for the OS than an individual
program. I wouldn't even know how to do that. And generally it is a
bad idea to do non-standard things, and this is extremely non-
standard behavior.
Christiaan
On 12 Jul 2008, at 6:36 PM, Christopher Reeve wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to Skim, but already love it.
One feature I think would be very helpful:
To push last called macro/function on a middle mouse click.
eg. If you are going through a document highlighting text, on the
first occurrence you would select the text to be highlighted and
then highlight the text with either clicking the highlight button or
using the short cut.
After this if you want to highlight some text simply select it
and then click the middle mouse button.
This would make repetitive jobs like highlighting a breeze! - With
left hand taken up by your mug of coffee your right hand does not
have to dart back and forth from the tool bar to the text - spilling
your precious coffee.
Chris.
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