Design/Whiteboards/Creating breaks

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    Summary

    Make creating page, section, and column breaks easier to discover.

    Status

    call for proposals analyzing proposals design taking shape implementation in progress implemented

    Scope

    In Scope Out of Scope
    • Adding page breaks
    • Adding section breaks
    • Adding column breaks with "Evenly distribute text" disabled
    • Editing page/section/column formatting
    • Editing the page number
    • Deleting breaks

    Relevant Bugs

    Definition of Terms

    • Section: A block of text within a page with formatting separate from that of the page that contains it. It's useful for separating a block of text into columns, adding different margins, a different background, different footnotes and endnotes, and hiding or write-protecting text.

    Discussion

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    Personas

    • Susan: 21-year-old college student. Hates hunting for features, always uses only the UI elements she notices up front. So far, she has used line breaks (pushing "Enter") to sepearate pages.
    • Andrew: likes to keep his papers nice and organized with sections, but hates looking through complicated menus and dialogs.

    Proposals

    Proposal by Mirek2

    Mockups

    Description

    Page and section add buttons

    Buttons for creating a page break and a section break appear below the last page of the document.

    Column breaks

    With "Evenly distribute text" disabled, column breaks should be automatically created along with the columns, so tapping within a column will focus the cursor at the beginning of the column.

    Proposal by Android272

    Mockups

    Description

    Page and section add buttons

    Buttons for creating a page break and a section break appear below the page of a document.