Thanks to Mark and Artur for their feedback. We have one vote each way, so for the time being I won't change this.
People like Mark with smallish screens should be aware that the window menu now has a Show/Hide Journal item as well as Show/Hide Script. Even when I using a big screen, I use these a lot when I am doing proofs (I set PPLINELENGTH so that ProofPower formats things to use the full width of the journal window when the script window is hidden). What I may do in a forthcoming version is add a toggle geometry item to the window menu so that the horizontal/vertical distinction can be made dynamically. Regards, Rob. On 22 Jul 2011, at 16:03, Mark wrote: > I use Xpp in 1-window mode for general text editing, and I also 2-window > mode for developing scripts. I want to develop my text with 80-character > width, which is the industry standard. Like many, I only have a 1280x800 > screen, and so horizontal mode means that the journal window is very > squashed up if the script window stays at 80. So I prefer vertical. > > I bet Phil is now going to show off about his new, super-hidef screen laptop > and suggest horizontal mode... :) > > Mark. > > on 22/7/11 3:10 PM, Rob Arthan <r...@lemma-one.com> wrote: > >> I nearly always use Xpp with the following settings in >> $HOME/app-defaults/Xpp >> >> Xpp*script.rows: 32 >> Xpp*script.columns: 60 >> Xpp*script.background: white >> Xpp*script.foreground: black >> Xpp*journal.rows: 32 >> Xpp*journal.columns: 60 >> Xpp*namestring.columns: 24 >> Xpp*journal.background: light blue >> Xpp*journal.foreground: black >> Xpp*journal.editable: true >> Xpp*mainpanes.orientation: HORIZONTAL >> >> This differs from the "out of the box" default in laying out the windows >> side-by-side and letting you bring up the command dialogue by trying to > type >> into the journal window. I am tempted to change the default settings to > the >> above - it looks a bit less like a standard Motif application, but it > makes >> much better use of modern screens (or at least modern screens that have a >> landscape aspect ratio). >> >> It would be nice to know what other people do before I commit to this >> change. So please let me know your preferences. >> >> Regards, >> >> Rob. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Proofpower mailing list >> Proofpower@lemma-one.com >> http://lemma-one.com/mailman/listinfo/proofpower_lemma-one.com >> >> >>
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