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--- Additional comments from sid...@openoffice.org Tue Dec 16 19:14:03
+ 2008 ---
I haven't commented in a few years because I can see there is no point. But
given the activity generated these days i can't help but put my two cents in.
IF YOU DON;T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS A PROBLEM then you are not a writer. It
would be like me wondering why you need to have a number pad on a computer,
since i never use numbers if i can help it. I always have number block off, and
as far as i'm concerned it can be eliminated completely. That doesn;t mean i
would say others should do without it.
My impression is that there are those who write and those who program, and for
the most part they don;t overlap. People who do a lot of writing generally scan
up and down the text, need to see what they wrote above and below, need
footnotes, and SCROLL WITH THE ARROW KEYS. We generally do not use the mouse
unless we absolutely have to. It wastes time. yes. i know it seems strange if
you don;t do lots of writing. But it does. I do everything with keys, cancel
word by word, jump paragraphs, highlight words, paragraphs, lines, change to
bold, change to italic, everything.
Scrolling with keys in ooo is like having a car with a steering wheel that once
you turn it, will keep turning more and more on its own even when you stop!
It's crazy.
Programmers, no doubt, have other needs, and are just as smart as writers, only
they work in a different way. I have no problem with that, we all have our way
of thinking and if it weren;t for the geniuses that developed computers, i would
be still waiting for weeks for my mail to get overseas and writing by hand with
a desk covered in papers.
But please, if you think there is no problem not to have a normal view, just
remember, this may not be true for others. You certainly need special features
that i would never have any use for at all. I don;t go around saying you're
whining if you don;t get them and want them. But you are the guys who do the
programming, so you get to get all your favorite and necessary features.
We are helpless writers, and can only take the programs that are available, made
by you programmers. Please try to realize that if you're doing a writing
program, it;s the writers you have to please.
Meanwhile, i will have to (with great anger and bitterness) stick to microsoft,
hateful as it is, but i'm stuck with it. I was really enthusiastic about ooo.
I really wanted it to work.
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