I quite like the idea of the red line, but am having trouble visualising using it. It sounds as if it could slow down transcribing for some yet be helpful to others, perhaps if it could be switched on and off. The way I work is with the scan in a small window only showing 1 column and the WinBMD window covering the bottom half, so when I have to move the scan up to view more entries, the scan window covers the WinBMD window which I then have to bring to the front, if I had to do this with every entry to move the red line it would take me forever to do one page. I hope this makes sense!! Lucille ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Brooke" <ianbrooke@hotmail.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Speed & WinBMD > This issue has been raised numerous times in the past and I've given it a lot of consideration. I remain unconvinced that a mechanism similar to BMDVerify is appropriate for WinBMD and believe that the two programs should remain seperate and distinct. I also think that the automatic advance cursor in BMDVerify would, in WinBMD, be as liable to error (considering mis-aligned scans, different scan sizes, differing magnifications etc) as a manual method and I am not prepared to introduce a further potential source of error in an attempt to remove another. The differing ways that the two programs operate seems to me to currently allow mistakes to be noticed and is therefore a help rather than a hinderance. > Having said that, I am prepared to introduce a manually moved ruler, ie a narrow red line on top of the scan which can be moved using (probably) Control/Arrow (unless anyone has a better combination) and can be used to underline the row currently being transcribed but does NOT move automatically. > If anyone has any comments on this would they please address them to the Discuss list (FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com) which I think is more appropriate. > Ian > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD Transcribers homepage > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vindex.shtml > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >