[texworks] Page navigation using arrow keys

Wed May 10 22:07:54 CEST 2017

Hi Alain,

Scrolling is not an option. In fact, I write most of my papers in double column. This makes scrolling unpractical, since sometimes you need to scroll up to reach the bottom of the first column, then scroll down to start at the top of the second column, then re-scroll up again as you read.

My point is that, by showing all the text in one screen, without the top and bottom margins, with just the click of a key every two columns (every page) I am done. This lets me concentrate in the contents of my work, rather than in positioning my text on the screen.

Thanks for all the suggestions anyway.

Joan

> On 10 May 2017, at 21:28, Alain Delmotte <alain.delmotte at leliseron.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> PageUp and PageDown move one screen up and down; try with a different zoom. That is kind of scrolling, sometimes showing the bottom of a page and the top of the next one.
> 
> Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown always move to the top of the page.
> Yes the developers read this email list and it is appropriate to suggest new features. (Even if there could be a special list or web location to do that.)
> 
> Question: when you write "I click on the left-right arrows" what exactly do you mean? On which arrows do you click?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alain
> 
> Le 9/05/2017 à 11:13, Joan Solà a écrit :
>> Yes, it is just a next/previous page thing, and the CTRL key does not change anything.
>> 
>> Is there anyone else missing this cool feature? Because if I am alone then I think I can forget it... :-(
>> By the way, is this email list appropriate for suggesting new features? Are the developers reading these emails?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Joan
>> 
>> On 09/05/17 10:34, Alain Delmotte wrote:
>>> Sorry, correct, it moves to the top of next/previous page.
>>> 
>>> Le 9/05/2017 à 05:42, Mark Yagnatinsky a écrit :
>>>> No, that does not seem to preserve scroll position.
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Joan Solà <jsola at iri.upc.edu <mailto:jsola at iri.upc.edu>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Alain. I will try tomorrow when in front of my Linux machine. Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Joan
>>>> 
>>>>> On 08 May 2017, at 21:44, Alain Delmotte <alain.delmotte at leliseron.org <mailto:alain.delmotte at leliseron.org>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could you try Ctrl+PageUp or Ctrl+PageDown?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does this help?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alain
>>>>> 
>>>>> Le 8/05/2017 à 17:09, Joan Solà a écrit :
>>>>>> 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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