I have no illusions that I'm going to win this argument; however, I use the visible margins in two ways:
1. When deciding when to add a manual page break, I need to exactly how far until the end of the main page, excluding the space occupied by the footer. Let's say I'm getting ready to begin a third-level heading. Depending upon the visible space near the bottom of the page, I might decide to begin that section on the next page. Right now, I can't accurately guage that space, especially since my footer has some blank space above the text. If I'm beginning a Level 2 heading, I tend to start it on a new page unless there's about 2 inches at the bottom of a page. 2. When adding any kind of graphical object to a Writer document, I sometimes manually expand the size of the object (proportionately) to be as large as the width of the page. I can keep enlarging the size until it's in the margins of the page--but I won't know that with LO 3.5 because I can't see the margins. This is a huge issue for me, because I embed many graphical objects (usually GDI Metafile objects from spreadsheets) in Writer documents and I often want them to be as large as the printed width of the page. If you stop allowing expansion of graphical objects past the margins, then this issue would be taken care of. Just because certain individuals don't make use of certain user-interface features in both applications and operating systems doesn't mean view that issue in the same way. Further, my question is still valid--why should a long-time user-interface feature be completely eliminated as compared to making it a preference setting? I could make the argument that was made to me (justify why I use this)--I don't use about 70% of all preference settings in LibreOffice. Thus, let's eliminate these unless each person can justify why they use them. How would that be? I'm not trying to be obnoxious, but it's pretty insulting when you've been doing serious writing for about 30 years and then get a question like this. Frankly, I view the elimination of visible margins as part of the dumbing down of user interfaces that I'm seeing in Mac OS Lion, Ubuntu 11.10, and now LO. It's the "let's make it pretty to look at even if if compromises the usefulness" school of thought. Clearly, LO Writer is not as pretty to look at with margin guides showing. But, for me, it's more useful. C'mon--this is a "View" menu option if there ever was one. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-3-5-Can-t-see-page-margins-in-Writer-tp3744148p3744673.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
