Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!aplcomm!capd.jhuapl.edu!waltrip From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A Feature that Preview ought to have... Message-ID: <1991Apr11.122717.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 17:27:17 GMT References: <1991Apr11.004820.22692@menudo.uh.edu> <476@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL Lines: 33 In article <476@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: > Matt Emerson writes >> I was looking through some Adobe documentation in Preview and thought, "Gee, >> it sure would be cool if Preview had a Find panel. Then I wouldn't have >> to flip though every single page before I get to the windowdeviceround >> operator." [...material deleted...] > This is a good idea, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I thought so, too. I wonder if a good approach might not be an application offering "search" services that might know how to search a fairly wide variety of formats? The availability of these services might encourage writers of a lot of applications to take advantage of the service where appropriate. > but might not be so easy. Any application that > plays with word and/or letter spacing (many/most of them these days) > will break up words into lots of little string pieces, and searching > for words gets a lot harder. Still, it wouldn't hurt to *look* for > it, at least. And if you sort of "concatenated" text by ignoring the > parentheses and just looking for spaces to delineate the words, you > might get lucky most of the time. c.f.waltrip Internet: Opinions expressed are my own.