Subject: Re: Normal mode nitpick
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 18:43:41 CST
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> According to Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com>:
>
> > Just check with Mac Word 2001:
> > Normal mode has no pages so page height is infinite.
>
> Only thin lines to show page break
>
> > Columns are still there but seem to be bottomless,
> > resulting in all text in the left column!
>
> Idem. No page no column, but text width is kept.
>
Why show page breaks then?
It would not be that hard to do this in abiword but I really don't see the
point. If people who just want content don't care about columns they
shouldn't put columns in their docs.
To me by far the main benefit of "Normal Mode" is to give users more
screen space. We should keep as much of WYSIWYG as possible. There are
other applications deisgned for non-WYSIWYG, like Lyx. We're a WYSIWYG
app. I think we should stick to that.
> > Online mode is also infinite height but columns goes
> > back to one fullwidth column. If you set columns to
> > another value in online mode, this puts you back into
> > Page Layout mode.
>
> Weird. Really.
>
I agree.
Martin
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