Re: Word Processor

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

>In article <56l028$10m@milo.vcn.bc.ca>, Gareth Jones <gareth@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
>> I recently suggested to Seven Hills that they consider a feature for 
>> GraphicWriter III that would make the lack of a good GS word processor 
>> more livable - the "story editor." The way I pictured it was:

>> 1. click the I-beam cursor in a text region
>> 2. select "story editor" from a menu
>> 3. A full-screen window opens up with the current text ready for editing.
>> 4. Close the window, and you are asked whether you want the changes to be 
>> saved to the GWIII document.

>> Since GWIII already has good layout controls and spell checker, a simple 
>> editing screen may be all we need. Thoughts?

I like this idea.  I was using GraphicWriter III the other day trying
to layout a booklet.  I created a two column layout and imported my
text and started changing the margins, indents and tabs to what I
wanted and it was dog slow because it had to do so much work to redraw
the display.

Being able to edit the text and adjust the margins, indents, tabs,
justification, font type, style and size without it having to
recalculate how to draw it on the page would make editting a whole lot
nicer.

Could this not be added by writing an XCMD for GraphicWriter III v2.0?

Now to contribute my thoughts to some other thoughts on this thread.

bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters) wrote:
>Questions:

>Would all of the text in the GW3 window be in the story editor's
>window? If so, how does it maintain the formatting in the GW3 window
>when one returns to the GW3 window?

I would vote for having the entire text of the story being put into
the editor window.  You could also maintain the current selection
and/or cursor location.

I'm not exactly sure what you meant by the second question.  Do you
mean if the you bring the page layout window to the front while you
still have the story editor window open?  If so, you could either copy
the current story from the story editor into the page layout window
when you select the page layout window or, for an even easier
solution, don't let the user bring the page layout window to the front
without closing the story editor window.  This would then put the new
text into the page layout window or return the original text if the
user decided to cancel the changes they made while in the story
editor.

>Would it be better to bring only selected text to the story editor?
>If so, and if none selected where would added text go on return to
>GW3? At the I-beam?

See my answer to your first question above.