Hi :) Traditionally a binary digit is usually thought of as +1 or 0, on or off, that sort of thing. So i hadn't really thought of what the opposite of a +1 is but voting is not binary anyway and -1 makes more sense. Regards from Tom :)
----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, 23 November 2012, 7:53 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [Ten questions] > >On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 08:23 22/11/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote: >>> The fact that the original questioner on this thread had to ask how to >>> disable so many autocorrect features, I think, proves my point. >> >> No - it just shows that he now knows about automatic correction *and* how to >> control it. >> >>> A user simply trying to type a document should never have to ask why the >>> program is making unintended changes to his work. >> >> Saying you don't want *unintended* changes is tautologous: you don't want >> what you don't want. No-one can argue with that. But that may require the >> program to read your mind. >> >> It all depends on what you mean by "changes". If I type a complete sentence >> on one line of my document, the program *changes* what I typed by flowing >> the text onto multiple lines. I've typed a page or two and then decide to >> increase the font size of all my text; the program now *changes* what I had >> by reflowing the text to fit. I type a new value into a spreadsheet cell, >> the program *changes* all the cells with formulae depending on it - without >> my going near them! >> >> If you don't want a program to make any automatic changes, you probably want >> a typewriter. >> >> ;^) > >the emoticon is appropriate as the argument is obviously a strawman. > >everyone expects text to 're-flow', no one expects that in the sequence > >(a) ... >(b) ... >(c) ... > >the last value will become the copyright symbol. > >I've learned to turn this bit of buggery off after long travails but why 'long >travails'? 'cause you forget about it until the next time you do a sequence >and there the darned thing is again! > >I also '+1' or whatever (how high is one allowed to go?) that "(i)" should not >generate "(I)". you certainly cannot argue this is as natural as paragraph >reflowing. > >but your point about tautologies is well-taken ((+2)?) since the sense of it >is "diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks," that is, some may want some >autocorrections that are abominations to others. > >I would vote for limiting autocorrections to frequent misspellings and leave >'fancy formatting' out of it. anyone who mistypes a word will notice the >autocorrection utility so there is no danger the resource will go unnoticed. > >is there such a thing as "-1"? > >F. > >-- Felmon Davis > >Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues. > >-- 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 > > > > -- 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
