Re: two simpl questions

Eek! - I had no idea that Abiword can be used as a wysiwyg editor - I
thought is was a straight-out text editor. I'll check that aspect out -
thanks Alan for letting me know.

"With a better understanding of your underlying problem the Abiword
developers might be able to suggest alternative solutions (an onscreen
magnifier perhaps, or the increase font size shortcut, or, or ...) which
might suit you just as well" - I agree that the default 'factory-set' font
should be regular and not bold, and users who want bold for composing text
can set the font to bold and reformat the text if they so desire when
publishing.

The view>text size menu in Explorer works some of the time on my Explorer 6
and when it doesn't I switch to Firefox where it does work. I also use the
free program "ReadPal" sometimes to enlarge text on the browser window.
Ideal text size, darkness and page background colour for different readers
clearly varies widely - a really interesting topic - I've found it pays to
experiment and get it right for my eyes and not just accept whatever the
default happens to be.

A problem that several Abiword users have raised here is that there's no
user-friendly way to change the normal.awt file if we want to do this for
whatever reason. It's only easy if you have figured out how to do it. It
needs to be easy if you haven't figured out how to do it :).

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Koala wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:17:47 +0930
> From: Koala <koala@internode.on.net>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Two simpl questions
>
>
> "it would surpise me if you really wanted to write an entire document in
> bold face" commented Alan.
Said Alan:
"I mentioned accessibility. My vision is fine at the moment but I can very
much empathise with users who have different vision requirements. My
point is that you don't want the document to be bold, you want it to be
clearer and easier to edit for you (and most likely you don't want to
impose your choices of larger font or bold or the people who will be
reading your work).

Wanting to view and edit a document using larger/clearer/whatever fonts
for accessibility reasons unrelated to whatever final results you want is
quite a different problem to solve.

Abiword is designed to be a WYSIWIG word processor: What You See Is What
You Get. Accessibility is of course very important but a slightly
different problem which conflicts with what abiword is designed for.

With a better understanding of your underlying problem the Abiword
developers might be able to suggest alternative solutions (an onscreen
magnifier perhaps, or the increase font size shortcut, or, or ...) which
might suit you just as well.

Best of luck

Sincerely

Alan Horkan"

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Received on Wed Apr 9 23:34:36 2008