On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 12:19 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-08-11 21:54, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2020-08-11 at 21:24 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > You are very forgiving. It belongs in Format-> page. > > > > That I can agree on. It's logical to have a format - page option > > format the current page. And it's logical for there to be a separate > > format - document option for the whole document. > > > > > > You should not have to be a programming genius to use a > word processor. And on what planet is page orientation > a "paragraph" feature? Test Maker suffers from this too.
It's a mistake to think of a book as if it were simply a very long memo. Fully developed document formatting is much more than "word processing". Publishers have a "house style" which can be supplied to authors in the form of LaTeX files, or maybe even as Word files. What the author has to do is follow the style. Unfortunately, the word processor mentality acts against this and everybody becomes their own designer. > I wonder if "paragraph" means something different in British English > that it does in American English. Sort of like > in American English "college" is a university and in British > English it is a trade school. Eton College is not a trade school. All Souls College, Oxford is not a trade school. The Royal College of Surgeons is not a trade school. I could go on ... Paragraph means the same on both sides, despite the two countries being divided by a common language. poc (Systems analyst, Cambridge University Press, 1973, working on one of the first computerised book preparation systems on Data General minis programmed in BCPL :-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
