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- From: ahd@apollo.sunquest.com (Art Dyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Message-ID: <53371@sunquest.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:05:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.213444.25253@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov19.163325.662@cine88.cineca.it> <palmer.722190827@news.larc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <palmer.722190827@news.larc.nasa.gov> palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov
- (Michael T. Palmer) writes:
- >bassi@cs.unibo.it (Bruno Bassi) writes:
- >
- >>For this particular case, I think that a horizontal representation, with
- >>"left" and "right" arrows, would do much better. [...]
- >>
- >>Any comments?
- >
- >Well, er, yes. You may find it natural for text to grow rightward, but
- >people who read right-to-left (Hebrew, etc.) or bidirectionally (can't
- >remember this one) may not find it natural at all. [...]
- >
- >I agree that there's got to be a better way, and I'm sure someone will
- >design something that makes us all feel pretty stupid for not thinking of
- >it before. :-)
- >
-
- OK, how about replacing the up and down arrows with plus and minus signs
- to increase and decrease the value?
-
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