> On 18 Jun 2020, at 15:37, Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E] via Skim-app-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Christiaan:
> 
> * Display laser pointer cursor in Presentation.
> 
> Thank you!!!
> 
> * Toggle laser pointer cursor in Presentation by hitting 'l'.
> 
> I was confused for a while because in some fonts on a tiny laptop
> screen 'i' looks like 'l' and '1'.  'l' is fine but the documentation
> could call it 'lower case of L for laser' to be clear.
> 
> * Show contents pane in Presentation by hitting 't'.
> 
> This is lovely!!!  Thanks!
> 

This used to be ‘p’, but I replaced that to get the overview of pages, which I 
think is better for Presentation mode.

> - The laser pointer is too big for my taste, but maybe ok for others. 
> I would have it half the current size.  Maybe there could be a way to
> change the size?  Arrow keys are taken, but '<' and '>' cause a beep
> so how about using those?
> 

it is not really feasible to make it resizable. I really would have made the 
dot more fuzzy (and therefore smaller looking), but the system really wants to 
put a shadow behind it, which makes it ugly when it is too fuzzy.

> - How about making 't' toggle OUT of contents mode?  What does 't'
> stand for?  I may never remember that!  'c' = contents would work for
> me.
> 

Note that this really is an alias for Cmd-T. It stands for Thumbnails, or Table 
of Contents.

’t’ to get out of out is not possible *(unless you first move the focus back to 
the PDF), because the various views eat up the single character key events.

> - How about 'h' and '?' for a help menu of the above toggles?
> (including 'h' and '?' of course)
> 

A bit circular, and I would not know what a help menu would look like. You can 
look them up in the Wiki.

> - I thought it would be useful to have a way to go to the beginning
> so I typed 'b' and it went black.  Oh!  It's a toggle!

That’s for screen blackout. 

> - s for start (I would prefer 'b' but that's taken apparently)
> - e for end
> 

That’s just the standard shortcuts for beginning-of-document and 
end-of-document (bound to FN key with arrows or page-up/-down, depending on 
your keyboard layout).

> - Likewise, by trying various characters I discovered that 'p' gives
> the pages (?) in a row format - nice.  But the mouse pointer
> disappears after moving around a little!  Looks like a bug!  

This really is a bug in the system, it keeps hiding or unhiding the mouse when 
we tell it do the opposite. We already have a ton of workarounds to fight 
against the system, but it keeps finding new ways to mess with it.

> Like 't'
> this should be a toggle.  Just go back to the page I was on
> previously, don't force me to select a page.
> 

Same thing here, the view eats up the single character key events, so we can’t 
bind it.

BTW, to get rid of some thing, the standard shortcut us Escape, which we 
implement in various places such as the pages Overview and the contents pane, 
as well as fullscreen and Presentation modes.

> A list so far for the help display (in alphabetic-ish order):
> 
> b - black screen (toggle)
> e - jump to end of slides
> h - help (this display, toggle)
> l - laser = red circle for mouse pointer (lower case 'L') (toggle)
> p - table of contents in rows over whole screen (toggle)
> s - jump to start of slides
> t - table of contents on left side (toggle)
> ? - help (this display, toggle)
>> - increase laser circle size  (could be '.' too)
> < - decrease laser circle size  (could be ',' too)
> 
> Tom

Cf the Wiki

Christiaan



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