But the issue is now what it's called. The problem is that it doesn't screen down consistently, giving a full new screen save for a consistent one- or two-line overlap at the top.
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 15:25 +0000, Tom Davies 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 > > > > > > > > -- 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
