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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - VIEWING: Option like "MS WORD's normal view" needed"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37967#c17">Comment # 17</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - VIEWING: Option like "MS WORD's normal view" needed"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37967">bug 37967</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:ErolB1@aol.com" title="ErolB1@aol.com">ErolB1@aol.com</a>
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<pre>I've just registered here to state my view that "Hide Whitespace" is NOT an
adequate substitute for a Normal View. And that there is a meta-bug here in the
form of developers not getting why a Normal View is such a "Critical! Need to
have! Feature!" for many users (or rather non-users) of Open/LibreOffice. When
I've gripped about this elsewhere, the usual programmer response was that it
was a bug in my wetware - that my need for a Normal mode meant that I was
trying to write prose in the wrong way.
The reasons why "Hide Whitespace" is not an adequate substitute for Normal View
include:
- The proper behavior for Hide Whitespace is to show the blank page below the
last line down to the bottom margin. The proper behavior for Normal View is to
show the first line on the next page *immediately* below the last line of the
page.
- The proper behavior for Hide Whitespace is to stagger margins from page to
page, when, e.g. the document has alternating left-and-right margins on
odd-and-even pages. The proper behavior for Normal View is to align left
margins from page to page, even if the left margin is (e.g.) 0.5 inches on one
page and 1.5 inches on the next.
- The proper behavior for Hide Whitespace is to display a thick, dark-gray line
between pages that serves as a clear (and somewhat intrusive) end-of-page
warning. The proper behavior for Normal View is to display a thin, light-gray
start-of-next-page line that the user will notice only if he looks for it -
that he can easily ignore.</pre>
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