[texworks] Page navigation using arrow keys

[Joan Solà]

I think no matter how good a program is, we get to love them many times 
because of some particular feature that we get attached to. This is very 
personal sometimes. But anyway, when upgraded software gets rid of these 
features we users get very frustrated. Now it's several times per day 
that I click on the left-right arrows and nothing happens, then I go 
page up/down, and then need to scroll the page. It's a complete 
breakdown of my working habits!

Instead, I never missed the ability to do continuous scrolling. And I 
still cannot appreciate the benefits of it... at least for me.

Life's hard.


On 08/05/17 20:57, Mark Yagnatinsky wrote:
> Yes, I also missed this at first when I upgraded to version 0.6.  I
> think it's worth for finally having the ability to do continuous
> scrolling, but of course it's even better to have both!
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Joan Solà <jsola at iri.upc.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been using TexShop for ages, and this was my reason to use TexWorks
>> when I needed a Tex editor for Linux. Then, I have been using TexWorks for
>> about 4 years now.
>>
>> Until today, I have been using version 4.5. Today I updated to 6.2.
>>
>> I wonder where did this functionality go: in Texshop and earlier Texworks, I
>> could position the page of the previewer at mid height in the window. Then,
>> clicking left or right arrow keys, I could switch to the previous / next
>> page, without losing the vertical position of my page. This way, I could
>> zoom the page in, leaving top and bottom page margins out of the window, and
>> still navigate across pages. The goal was to have all the text visible on
>> the screen, but not the top and bottom margins, so that everything appeared
>> significantly larger.
>>
>> Honestly, this was one of the coolest features of texworks. When you have a
>> small screen (i.e. when you are working on your laptop), it is a life saver,
>> since displaying PDF pages showing top and/or bottom margins  means that the
>> page needs to be too small to fit in the screen. In other words: showing the
>> margins implies a poor use of the screen surface.
>>
>> With the new version, I cannot do so. I can only do "next page" or "previous
>> page" (even if attributed to the arrow keys), but when I do so, the
>> appearing page is either at the top or the bottom of the window, meaning
>> that either the full top margin is visible and I cannot see the lower text
>> of my page, or the other way around.
>>
>> Obviously, scrolling the page up/down after having switched pages is not the
>> option I am looking for.
>>
>> Is there any possibility to bring this feature back to life? It seems easy:
>> on left/right arrow key, do:
>> - remember vertical position
>> - switch to previous/next page
>> - reposition vertically the result according to the remembered setting
>>
>> Actually, and since we're already talking about this, this navigation
>> feature could be improved even further, by also allowing the PDF window to
>> skip left/right margins. Now, if the pdf page does not fit the window
>> horizontally, then left/right arrows move the page horizontaly. My
>> suggestion is that left/right arrows should only be used for page
>> navigation, not for page repositioning, and that this navigation should
>> remember horizontal and vertical position settings.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Joan
>>
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>> Joan Solà
>> Ramon y Cajal researcher
>> Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
>> Mobile Robotics group
>> c/ Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 1r
>> 08028 Barcelona
>> +34 93 4017337
>> jsola at iri.upc.edu
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>>

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Joan Solà
Ramon y Cajal researcher
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
Mobile Robotics group
c/ Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 1r
08028 Barcelona
+34 93 4017337
jsola at iri.upc.edu
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