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[Friedrich Laher <address@hidden>]

Andrea Gamba wrote:
> I have been thinking about the difference of working on a technical article 
> on
> the computer (where you make corrections directly) and paper (where you make
> corrections with a pen and then copy on the computer). 
>
> Working with paper is still useful because it allows to zoom in and out of 
> the
> document, to pass from a bird's eye view to the finest detail. 
>
> It is frustrating however, because were it not for this reason, there are 
> only
> disadvantages in using paper (at least, you then have to accurately copy 
> your
> changes in a computer again).
>
> I wonder if one could come out with a truly innovative texmacs interface 
> such
> that it is possible to easily zoom in and out of the document in the same 
> way
> as one does with a sheet of paper.
>
> With compiz and cairo, the technology is probably available. It would be a 
> way
> to really make compositing useful. It would be even better than the expos�
> function (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expos%C3%A9_(Mac_OS_X)): actually, it
> would be expos� for documents, not just for the desktop.
>
> To my knowledge nothing of this kind still exists, it would be a huge
> innovation (strangely enough, nothing of this sort is not even on the Macs).
>
> Yes, now you can change the shrinking factor (I often do that), but not
> continuously and you have to wait till the document resizes, it is very far
> from the experience of working with a sheet of paper.
>
>   
did you consider the posibilities of using multiple windows ( view -->
clonw window ) to look at and edit far distant parts of the same document
"at the same time" ?