Re: NB5 Working with two windows

["Mark D. Szuchman" <szuchman>]

Flavio,
NBW in Graphic View lines up the horizontal perspective in the same way
as NBD does it in Page-Line View.  The both share the user's prefernce
to see the image of the document as it will be printed.  This requires
the adjustments of each window in order to see the horizontal view in
its entirety.

By contrast, Draft View in both NBW and NBD assumes that the user does
not care about seeing how the document will look in print, and thus
wraps lines around artificially for the sake of achieving the desired
effect: fit the contents of each line inside the window, regardless of
how it will actually be laid out on paper.

So my advice is that if in NBW you don't want to be scrolling from left
to right in order to see all of the horizontal contents of each line,
or if you don't want to have to re-do horizontal settings such as point
size, offset, page width, etc, in order to see the whole horizontal
contents, simply present the document in Draft View. Alternatively, you
can leave both windows in Graphic View and reduce the percentage
settings in the Zoom area.  Unless you have a very large monitor,
however, reduced zoom will not let you discriminate the letters very
well.
Best,
Mark

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 09:02:38 -0600 (CST), Flavio Colombo wrote:

>When I open a pair of files and arrange the two windows vertically I will like 
>to have NB adjust the right margin of each window so that I don't have to 
>scroll from margin to margin to see all the text. If I remember well, NB DOS 
>did it automatically.
>..
>It's half an hour I am trying to modify the horizontal layout of my files, 
>reducing text width to window dimension.
>New values stay active for the first two pages or so, then I am presented to a 
>page formatted with previous values. Believe it or not, opening in draft mode 
>doesn't show anything responsible for this behaviour: no commands, no 
>markers... So what?
>In the meantime my job is waiting for me...
>
>I had it done switching to Nota Bene for DOS
>
>Bye
>Enjoy the New Year !
>F.C.