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Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Dec 20, 2007 at 02:33 AM
That’s what I was getting at. My guess is he tiles several windows on a small screen, and that he means ‘windows’ for ‘screen.’ He’s right. This should be customisable, and customisability is Inspiration’s weakness. This is particularly true as to its arcane shortcut keys, although More shared them and also didn’t allow customisability.
[But then we had Quickeys that could easily create system-wide and application specific macros. I don’t think there’s an equivalent on Windows—AutoHotkey lacking the ease of use—or on OS X. Or has Quickeys gotten back up to speed there?]
David Dunham wrote:
>DaXiong wrote:
>
>>I think you’re right about an automatic 4 position
>>indent. My
>problem is this: With 4 or 5 levels of outline, I end up being indented almost
>>half the
>page. If I could set it to 2 (or even 3) it would help a lot.
>
>I must be missing something,
>or other outliners are different from mine. Opal uses 16 pixels per outline level. The
>5th level is thus indented only 64 pixels from the 1st level. That’s less than 10% of any
>screen these days.
Posted by Cassius
Dec 20, 2007 at 02:54 AM
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>If you have or would write a clear and complete description of the bug, I’ll see if I can
>get an answer from them. For myself, I have never been able to get a good one-click
>conversion to Word from _any_ non-Microsoft program. Probably the way | use styles in
>Word.
The bug in the NoteMap to Word 2000 file conversion is simple to explain: In NoteMap one can have many (un-numbered) paragraphs in a single numbered note. When “Sent to” Word, every paragraph is numbered. However, if one exports the NoteMap file to rtf and then opens the rtf file in Word, all is OK.
-c
Posted by David Dunham
Dec 20, 2007 at 06:58 AM
Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>My guess is he tiles several windows on a small screen, and
>that he means ‘windows’ for ‘screen.’
Actually, he wrote “page,” and at 72 pixels/inch, 64 pixels is still a pretty small amount of an 8.5 inch page—bigger than 10% it’s true.
>[But then we had Quickeys that could easily create system-wide
>and application specific macros. I don’t think there’s an equivalent on
>Windows—AutoHotkey lacking the ease of use—or on OS X. Or has Quickeys gotten back
>up to speed there?]
Mac OS X lets you assign custom keys: (Apple) > System Preferences, choose Keyboard & Mouse, choose Keyboard Shortcuts tab. IMO there’s little reason to write your own code for this. (And I think QuicKeys still exists, and would be another reason not to bother writing your own.)