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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Online Docs (Was: Next Bugs)
Keywords: WriteNow, Documentation
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Date: 28 Sep 89 17:19:46 GMT
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In article <30216@news.Think.COM> fad@think.com (Franklin A Davis) writes:
=In article <4473@ncar.ucar.edu> davis@groucho.UCAR.EDU (Glenn P. Davis) writes:
==I puruse the NeXT Documentation using WriteNow on the NeXT.
==
==I find the situation less than desirable.  
==What I would like to do is trim the window such that it just contains the
==meaningfull content of the page, then (preferably with one keystroke or click),
==display the next page with the same registration within the window as I had
==set up.
=
=Absolutely!  WriteNow desperately needs "next page" and "previous
=page" keys.

As an interesting "solution" to this, try the Previewer.  Just as an
exercise, open the SysRefMan/04_Drawing.wn file with WriteNow, from
the NextLibrary/Documentation directory.  Once it's open, bring up
the "print" dialog and hit "Preview".  It's 64 pages long so it takes
a little while to write out all the pages.

The Previewer lets you see exactly one page at a time, and has forward-
and backward-page keys.  The type is a little smaller than in WriteNow,
but you can zoom if you want to.  It's actually quite speedy and a nice
way to zip through the documentation.  If you really like it, all you
have to do is to go through all of the WriteNow documentation and print
them to a file somewhere so you can browse them with the Previewer :-)

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems