On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 14:49 -0600, anne-ology wrote: > but the computer's page is different from the printed page ;-) You're missing the point, which is that the scrolling is not consistent in presenting a new set of lines except for a one or two line overlap with the previous set of lines.
Btw, the kind of behavior I like does seem to happen on gedit and Evolution. So I think it's something in the way the word processor is designed to interact with the PgDn button. > > BTW - Brian, I think your explanation was very good. > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> 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
