~ LisaWrite Wish List

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A Semaphore Corporation publication for Usa

^1M

users and developers.

LisaWrite Wish List

Part 2, by

Nathan

c. Myers

Page

Ruler. Lisawrtte should

allow

moving

the

"top line"

indicator up over

the

header Indicator (pernaps moving the header indicator, too) so that text

can

be

up close

to the

page

t.xu1dary. Whenever text is saved to

the

diSk, or loaded, or switched between ·preview pages"

^and

"dOn't

preview pages", or When

the

page ruler is displayed,

the

display jt.mps to

the

beg1mlng of

the

doruTlent. This is very annoying. "Preview pages" seems

to work fairly well,

but

you can't

see where

the

page

bolIldary

Is l.I1less

Ule

page ruler Is turned on.

There

should be

a line across

the

page snowing Its poslt1on even

when the

ruler is not on.

Elevators..

The

elevators

do

not prOVide

~

Information

abOUt how much of

a doruTlent is visIble wlUlln

tlle

windOW. llle

following

technique may

be

appI1ed to any appI1cation

and

really OLqlt to

be

built into

the

ToolkIt:

the

elevator's sIze should be proportional to

how much

of

the

dOCt.ment Is vIsIble in

the

windoW. Precisely,

the

ratio of elevator sIze to "elevator shaft" length should equal

the

- ratio Of wlnoow size to OOClllleOt size.

The

inmediate objection ,

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that arises is that in extreme

cases tne elevator would get

too small

to see or

h81dle. The

ObVious solution Is to specify a mininun size for the elevator,

peIhaps tlalf U1e

present size.

Since in extreme cases

ell

exact qtmtltatlve report Is not

necessary,

).1st noting the

small

elevator provides all the

information needed. In fact, it

provideS no less InformatIon

^tna'l

the

elevators as currently Implemented. In Intermediate cases,

the

proportional elevator WOUld save a great deal of time

spent scrolling arCUld trying to find a partiCUlar area of the doctment, or

just

trying to see

now big the cJoctnlent really Is.

The

bottom border

of

the edit windOW

doeS

not really

need

"page mover"

view

buttons, but it really ShOUld nave

^al

elevator, preferably a proportional one.

The aJISOI'. When

one begins typing, tne POinter disappears.

This is as it should

be,

but When you go for

the

mouse

again, the

pointer reappears in

what

always seems to be a rCl'ldom position,

as one is rarely interested in

Wtlere tne pointer was wnen It disappeared. It should instead appear where the text cursor Is, since that is the current point of Interest. It Is cdtJC8l/y Important to allow use

of the

cursor

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movement keys. USing a mouse is fine

when you

need

to

move

halfWay

across a page, bUt for

moving

ri~t

one space or l4l one lIne,lt's far

too

rruch trotble to reach all the way

to

the mouse..

Editor's

!'btt!:

HBving

8 CUlSt8l1t

elevator size seems

nuJh

mom

If'P'Nl./ing thw1 hBving to point to

8

ship!

that

repmsents

the S811/I

fu7ctim

but

which

has 8 different

size at dlFl'e.Il!nt UI11I1£

Ped1Cps

s,ytTDoJs inside

the elevator box , JtselF couJdmp.resent the

wini:1w!r size and la::stilX1?

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LisaCalc

Print Tricks

Are you wasting time, paper

and

ribbons printing a WhOle

spreadsheet

when

just a copy of one or two colllTlnS Is all YQU

need?

A letter from Bill Sta'lley

of

the computer

^ShOppe

In

Greensboro,

North

Carolina deScribed

the

followtrg methOds of selectively printing columns

from a Llsacalc spreadsheet: to print only one colll'Tln from a

sneet, put page

markS

on eacn

side of

the

colum and then print only that "page"

by

specifying

the

necessary range In

the

Print. .• dialog

box.

To print only

the

extreme

ends

of a sneet, say colt.mlS A cr"K2 F, )Jst

Cut

colllTllS B t.hftx.9'l E, print tlle page, then

U1do

Last cnange

to restore the sheet. EJ

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_Granaoa

_DIlve

Aptos, CA 95003

Rubber Band Freezes DMP

We'll frequently start printing on our dot matrix printer ana

^then

suddenly

need

to momentarily stop

the·

printer to make some small adjJstment,

such

as repositioning

the

paper. ^sadly,

tmelecting

the

printer causes

the

Lisa to stop

and

force us to cancel

the

print

job.

Apparently, only holding doWn the mouse button

makes the

printer pause.

A ruDDer Dana (for COllaring

the

mouse to keep

the

button down) has now

become

a standard piece of LIsa hardware at S/[T18l. EJ

Whatls_

^that

mysterious tnJSed con'leCtor Inside tlle Lisa behind the floppies? EJ

BUlK RATE"

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