Re: Normal Mode and WYSIWYG printing.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:39:56 -0600
> From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
> To: "[UTF-8] Jean Bréfort" <jean.brefort@normalesup.org>
> Cc: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au, abiword-dev <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Normal Mode and WYSIWYG printing.
>
>
> If I recall correctly from my use and observation of MS Word, people
> tend to use Normal mode when they're more concerned about the text than
> the layout. While having a WYSIWYG "page break" line would be useful, I
> think it is probably assumed that Normal mode is not Print mode and so
> not Print-like. Perhaps a renaming is in order ("Logical" or similar?)

Sorry for the late reply. Normal mode in abiword has always been broken
for me. Print mode is for WYSIWYG, Normal mode is not and I used it
instead for inputting lots of text and leaving formatting until later
(preferably using styles).

-- 
Alan