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- From: Phil Buxton <PhilB@BNR.ca>
- Subject: Re: Moving things around...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.200911.7099@bmers18.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:09:11 GMT
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- In article Eric Tholome, tholome@esf.de writes:
-
- >This was experienced with FrameMaker 2.1 on Sun.
- >
- >I've discovered something pretty convenient (and possibly funny) in
- FrameMaker:
- >if you select several characters, hold Control down and use the arrow
- keys, you
- >will be able to move the selection in all four directions.
- >
- >I'm sure this can be helpful in drawings, etc. I guess it can mess
- things up as
- >well if used stupidly...
- >
- >You can also use it to play tricks on your friends... If you write
- "fcatory"
- >and artificially swap the a and the c, it will look like "factory", but
- the
- >spelling checker will still complain about it. The cursor will also make
- >some weird moves when passing over it (with the left or right arrow).
- >
- >Is this well known, used and documented? I don't think so...
-
- This is I believe a feature of Frame to allow users to put marks above
- letters
- when writing mathematically or using some of the European "letters".
- Since
- there is no "fine" control of this movement, there have been complaints
- in the
- not too distant past from other Net/Frame users.
-
- Do the same on a MAC using option shift, which is also the way to move
- graphical objects coarsely around. Option shift moves characters about
- 3 points horizontally or vertically, at each jump at 1000%
-
- Option arrow alone is finer control for both types of objects. It moves
- characters about 0.5 pts horizontally or vertically at each jump at 1000%
-
- I think the character moves are independent of zoom, but this is not the
- case
- with objects.
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