Re: normal mode wish list


Subject: Re: normal mode wish list
From: Walter S. Leipold (leipoldw@ace-net.com)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 08:53:48 CST


Dennis Collins writes:
> reduce margins to absolute minimum (2 or 3 characters at most)
> wrap paragraphs to the window not the page (or make it optional)
> hide page formatting, graphics, headers and footers

I agree with Dennis; in normal mode, I don't want to waste a lot
of screen real estate on a wide white band down the left-hand side
of each window and across each page break.

Two additional items for the wish list:

1) Normal mode is important to me because editing windows can
be smaller, so I can fit a number of docs on the screen at a time
(say, when editing a set of related help files). Unfortunately,
AbiWord's toolbars are too wide, so the minimum window width
(if I want to use any tool on the formatting bar) is most of a
1024x768 screen width. Would it be possible to split the toolbars
up (for instance, split the formatting bar into separate 'font' and
'formatting' bars)?

2) I'd like AbiWord's left-margin behavior to mimic MSWord's:
when I move the cursor into the left margin, it becomes a
line-at-a-time selection tool (and a double-click selects exactly
one paragraph, and triple-click selects the whole document).

And, as Dennis says:
> If all of this is already planned then all the better. My thanks to
> programmers and I look forward to each new release.

Regards,

-- Walt Leipold

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