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?
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.
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To: [email protected]
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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