Subject: Re: PATCH request: edit headers
From: Bryce Nesbitt (bryce@obviously.com)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 21:45:06 CST
Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>
> Hi, interesting idea. I add to it the following:
>
> On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 08:53, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > This is too much work for 1.0. Maybe it could be revisted post 1.0. Here
> > is my suggestion.
> > We leave all the header/footer controls active during normal mode
> > editting. However when a user tries to edit a header/footer while in
> > normal mode, we pop a message box that says:
>
> You must be in Print Layout mode to create and edit Headers or Footers. To
> enter Print View mode, you may select 'Print Layout' from the 'View' menu.
>
> Do you want to change to Print Layout now?
>
> [ Yes ] [[ No, thanks ]]
I think this a good fix for now, with possible rethinking of "normal" mode
later.
It's also important to remove the header formatting marks from normal
mode. Those are really confusing. Use "show paragraphs/formatting marks"
to see these.
-Bryce
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