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Date: Sun 25-Sep-1989 21:36:41 From: Unknown Subject: Online Docs (Was: Next Bugs) I puruse the NeXT Documentation using WriteNow on the NeXT. I find the situation less than desirable. The reason is that the Online docs are formatted to look nice when printed and WriteNow is WYSIWYG. These two conditions conspire to mean that I can't read the document a page at a time on the screen. I personnally find scrolling the documents a line ("pressing") at a time VERY tiring to the eyes. An alternative, 'Alt Scroll down", lands me in the page transition area (no useful information) every other time since there is so much vertical whitespace in the documents. A third alternative, typing the next page number in the lower right 'page' box, is clumsy. It also has the disadvantage of registering the upper edge of the "page" (paper edge) with the upper edge of the view. One would prefer to register the upper margin line with the upper edge of of the view. What I would like to do is trim the window such that it just contains the meaningfull content of the page, then (preferably with one keystroke or click), display the next page with the same registration within the window as I had set up. Alternatively, just disable vertical page margins/ page breaks when reading, so that the doc is vertically continuous. The goal is to read the document with a minimum of "screen refreshes". Note that the traditional unix "nroff -man | more" system actually gave you this. Perhaps there are some WriteNow tricks I can use? Or maybe the interface needs some changes. The current interface is OK for for writing/composing docs, but is lousy for reading them. Are there others who agree with this assessment or am I out in left field on this? Glenn P. Davis UCAR / Unidata PO Box 3000 1685 38th St. Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 497 8643 >From: jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong)
Date: Sun 27-Sep-1989 17:02:43 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Online Docs (Was: Next Bugs) In article <4473@ncar.ucar.edu> davis@groucho.UCAR.EDU (Glenn P. Davis) writes: >I puruse the NeXT Documentation using WriteNow on the NeXT. > >I find the situation less than desirable. >What I would like to do is trim the window such that it just contains the >meaningfull content of the page, then (preferably with one keystroke or click), >display the next page with the same registration within the window as I had >set up. Absolutely! WriteNow desperately needs "next page" and "previous page" keys. --Franklin franklin a davis Thinking Machines Corp. Cambridge, MA 02142 617-876-1111 <fad@think.com> {ames, harvard, mit-eddie, uunet}!think!fad Let the four winds blow you safely home! >From: fad@kulla (Franklin A Davis)
Date: Sun 28-Sep-1989 17:19:46 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Online Docs (Was: Next Bugs) In article <30216@news.Think.COM> fad@think.com (Franklin A Davis) writes: =In article <4473@ncar.ucar.edu> davis@groucho.UCAR.EDU (Glenn P. Davis) writes: ==I puruse the NeXT Documentation using WriteNow on the NeXT. == ==I find the situation less than desirable. ==What I would like to do is trim the window such that it just contains the ==meaningfull content of the page, then (preferably with one keystroke or click), ==display the next page with the same registration within the window as I had ==set up. = =Absolutely! WriteNow desperately needs "next page" and "previous =page" keys. As an interesting "solution" to this, try the Previewer. Just as an exercise, open the SysRefMan/04_Drawing.wn file with WriteNow, from the NextLibrary/Documentation directory. Once it's open, bring up the "print" dialog and hit "Preview". It's 64 pages long so it takes a little while to write out all the pages. The Previewer lets you see exactly one page at a time, and has forward- and backward-page keys. The type is a little smaller than in WriteNow, but you can zoom if you want to. It's actually quite speedy and a nice way to zip through the documentation. If you really like it, all you have to do is to go through all of the WriteNow documentation and print them to a file somewhere so you can browse them with the Previewer :-) Glenn Reid Adobe Systems >From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
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