Hi :) The button that worries me is the "Windows key" with the MS logo on it. Are the police likely to knock down my door now that i have painted over it with a rather bad copy of the Ubuntu logo? Also why does Ubuntu store sell a keyboard with the Windows logo on that key?!! Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Eric Beversluis <ebe...@researchintegration.org> >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" ><users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:50 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors > >But the issue is now what it's called. The problem is that it doesn't >screen down consistently, giving a full new screen save for a consistent >one- or two-line overlap at the top. > >On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 15:25 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Yes, the button probably should say "Screen down" instead of page down for >> most uses of the button and only say "Page down" for those rare cases where >> it really does mean a page. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> PS blimey a short answer for once!! lol >> >> >> >> >> >> >________________________________ >> > From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> >> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >> >Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 15:15 >> >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors >> > >> >At 09:35 15/02/2013 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> >> Something I've never figured out--and seems true of LO/OO as well as M$ >> >> Word: When reading through a document, one hits 'PgDn', but one doesn't >> >> get a new page--it only scrolls down some seemingly arbitrary number of >> >> lines. One has to scan the new screen to see what one left off reading >> >> and one may only have gotten a half page of new reading for the effort. >> >> >> >> Maybe I'm spoiled by e-readers. But maybe, even after all these years, I >> >> haven't figured out how to do this correctly in a word processor. >> > >> >I think you are missing the different functions of the two sorts of >> >software. E-readers are what they say they are: readers. In other words, >> >their users are using them to read documents. More than that, in general >> >they will be reading the documents sequentially: when they get to the end >> >of one page, they will next want to see the next page. And the only sense >> >of "page" is as much as fills the screen of the display device. >> > >> >Word processors are quite different. In general, they are still fixated on >> >printing the final document: the page size is the format of the eventual >> >supposed printed version, not necessarily (and not usually) the size and >> >format of the screen used for display. People usually choose settings that >> >display less than a printed page of a document; if you were looking at such >> >a screenful and then moved down a full page, you would unhelpfully have >> >missed part of the text. >> > >> >But the bigger point is that a word processor is designed for editing, not >> >reading. If you are editing at one point in a document and you now need to >> >move down to a point currently off your screen image, it is not at all >> >obvious - quite unlikely, in fact - that you would want to move to a >> >following page. It is much more likely that you would want to be able to >> >see some part of the document further down but whilst also still seeing the >> >part on which you had just been working. >> > >> >The original model, then, is that no-one would read documents on screen but >> >only from hard copy. It is interesting that software has been moving >> >towards servicing screen reading, albeit rather slowly. Microsoft >> >Powerpoint allows you to save a presentation as a "slide show", in which >> >case it opens for any recipient as for display, not for further editing. >> >Microsoft Word has a reading mode, which displays screenfuls - not >> >necessarily in the original layout - and in which your page down function >> >works as you want. There is also a freeware Word Viewer available from >> >Microsoft, intended for users without Microsoft Word installed. Again, >> >since this is a reader and not an editor, it responds to page down requests >> >by moving down a screenful. Oh, and try opening a read-only file with >> >LibreOffice Writer: I think you'll find that it will now treat "page down" >> >differently and move down (almost) a screenful. >> > >> >Should word processing and similar software provide an explicit reading >> >mode for use in reading, not editing, documents? Possibly. Meanwhile, if >> >you want something close to this behaviour in Writer, here's your >> >workaround: just click the Edit File button in the Standard toolbar to >> >toggle on this behaviour. >> > >> >I trust this helps. >> > >> >Brian Barker >> > >> > >> >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >> >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: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
