MY COMPLAINTS AGAINST PAGES
I'm very happy with pages 09 version 4.1 for leopard 10.6.8 and I can do almost everything I want in complicated formatting However there are a few things that are a real hassle for certain tasks.
1) During copying and pasting Pages adds a space in between words which is bonus if you're using roman scripts and REAL drag if you use other scripts like indic based scripts. Q. Is there a way of desactivating that function at will?
2) text capitalization, small caps and even smart quotation marks. Pages and unfortunaltely other text processors too. Capitalize and you cannot change styles unless you do it all over again. Q. Is there a way of desactivating that? Capitalize (or whatever) and leave it alone so one could change things at ease.
3) Try to center automatic page numbers in a text frame! You can't. However you can do it on a header or a footer.
4) Line spacing. If you use exact line spacing and you want to change the spacing sometimes without warning the things goes to funny numbe and have to go through single line and back to exact spacing to do your task. I have that at least twice or more times every day and it was the same in a previous version of pages. Probably a bug.
5) Certain non roman fonts are not handled by pages in the same way as Text Edit of Nisus. Tried in different computers and different Mac OS systems without success. Explored all avenues, ligatures, etc. with the same result. Anything special about the way Pages handles fonts or is it the system.
Thanks for comments or help. Any way of having Apple to solve small things like that in an otherwise wonderful text processor. The best I have used to date?
Atoa
I'm very happy with pages 09 version 4.1 for leopard 10.6.8 and I can do almost everything I want in complicated formatting However there are a few things that are a real hassle for certain tasks.
1) During copying and pasting Pages adds a space in between words which is bonus if you're using roman scripts and REAL drag if you use other scripts like indic based scripts. Q. Is there a way of desactivating that function at will?
2) text capitalization, small caps and even smart quotation marks. Pages and unfortunaltely other text processors too. Capitalize and you cannot change styles unless you do it all over again. Q. Is there a way of desactivating that? Capitalize (or whatever) and leave it alone so one could change things at ease.
3) Try to center automatic page numbers in a text frame! You can't. However you can do it on a header or a footer.
4) Line spacing. If you use exact line spacing and you want to change the spacing sometimes without warning the things goes to funny numbe and have to go through single line and back to exact spacing to do your task. I have that at least twice or more times every day and it was the same in a previous version of pages. Probably a bug.
5) Certain non roman fonts are not handled by pages in the same way as Text Edit of Nisus. Tried in different computers and different Mac OS systems without success. Explored all avenues, ligatures, etc. with the same result. Anything special about the way Pages handles fonts or is it the system.
Thanks for comments or help. Any way of having Apple to solve small things like that in an otherwise wonderful text processor. The best I have used to date?
Atoa
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