[softwarelist] Re: Unexpected behaviour/bug manually deleting page in OVPW 2.90 (29 March 06)

In article <xWlUXbBppx4EFwcA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's a long standing catch with Ovation, what is the
> current page? . . . it is the page nearest the centre of the
> window, i.e. the page number shown in the info palette.

But the current /chapter/ seems to be the one displayed at the
very top of the window (in Ovation Pro for RISC OS, at least)
which seems inconsisient with the current page being that
displayed in the middle of the window.

I've just had to delete a chapter in the document I'm working on,
which is something I don't do very often and has always seemed
unpredictable. Having read this thread today, I thought selecting
Page > Delete chapter would delete the chapter containing the
current page, i.e. chapter x, where the current page number shown
in the info pane is x.y. With the greater part of the window
showing the first page of chapter 3, the middle of the window is
in page 3.1 so that is the current page number shown in the info
pane. Yet if any part of the last page of chapter 2 is shown at
the top of the page, including even the thick grey line
separating that from page 3.1, it is chapter 2 which is offered
for deletion.

Not a major problem, but in an ideal world I'd have thought the
current page and current chapter would be those containing the
caret. Admittedly this would mean that the currrent page wouldn't
always be visible, but a single press of an arrow key will always
bring the caret into view in whichever window has input focus.


Peter Newble.


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