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yet still manipulate the emotions of a reader able to overlook the presentation, and beautifully laid-out text can still be nonsense.
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These domains are, to a surprising extent, independent: a manuscript can be full of scratchings-out, ink blots &c. "Writing" is actually two domains: that of the author, and that of the calligrapher / typesetter. WYSIWYG is at best overrated and at worst deleterious. The perfect environment would be Pages that can read and edit Adobe Acrobat files along with markup, comments and notes along with full Endnote functionality that would also run on a tablet that takes advantage of gestures. Granted, I still have to return to Word from time to time as Pages is not yet perfect, still needing better integration with Endnote, but it is getting pretty close. Writing my doctoral dissertation in Word back in 2003 was a repeated lesson in pain as every time I changed a single image, the formatting of the entire document would be altered with entire paragraphs seeming to disappear or get hidden outside of margins and I never want to return to that world. I want my word processing environment to simply let me craft written word and images into a form that allows me to communicate my intent to the audience without getting in the way or making me learn arcane and occult methods for getting my page numbers to appear just right or getting the text to wrap around an embedded image without constantly having to reformat an entire 80 (or more) page document.
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Fundamentally the issue with interfaces is not providing features piled on features, but figuring out how to craft a tool that people can use to get work done rather than having to learn how to use the tool. However, it is all in the interface and Pages from Apple has shown that many of the "professional" features in word processing have to do with page layout or formatting issues as well as integrating not just text and fonts, but also images.
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I used to think that the reality of the situation was that you really could not have a professional class word processing application that does all things that professional writers need used by the same audience that merely wants to write school reports or letters to friends. This will unhide the menu bar and you can use the menu item, or the standard Mac icon on the right side of the menu bar.The problem with Word and notably Microsoft, is that they have attempted to make both Windows and their apps, notably Office, all things to all people with an interface that has not really changed at all over the course of its lifetime. To exit distraction-free mode, move the mouse to the top of the screen. To enter distraction-free mode, use the main menu or associated shortcut I will attach screenshots of Sublime Text: > How does switching to/from this mode work in the other apps?
No editor tabs, no toolbars, no line numbers, no status bar, nothing - just the scroll bar.
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In Sublime Text, the only UI that is shown besides the code is the scroll bar, nothing else. > Also some users would expect the progress of runnning background tasks to be visible So in this case, they would not see the error until they exit the distraction-free mode. I think the idea of "distraction-free" is that users see nothing else, just the editor. > What if a background build is running which ends with an error? You are right - on the other hand the main menu is visible on Ubuntu and hidden on Mac. On Gnome the main toolbar is already not included in full screen mode.
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