[scribus-dev] Text-formatting

[Gregory Pittman]

On 07/12/2012 07:09 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>
> I think it starts with answering the questions about what behavior 
> should be expected before someone goes and "fixes" the code, since 
> they're liable to make bad choices.
We've discussed this before, but I think there could be something we 
might call auto-styles, which in essence keeps a list of particular as 
yet unnamed character styles already used in a document, which might 
include font, its size, and perhaps some other features like kerning.

It would something like this. I am working in a document, highlight some 
text, or as I get ready to enter some text, I make some changes in font, 
size, etc. As soon as I have entered some text with these features, this 
gets saved as an unnamed character style, so that if I go to some other 
frame I can call up these settings without needed to create a character 
style or make the settings manually all over again.

An alternative might be to be able to go back to some text, place the 
cursor somewhere in the middle of it, and then be able to click a button 
that makes a character style from the settings at that location, without 
needing to use the Edit Styles dialog, all I have to do is to give it a 
name. Similarly, if that text already has a named character style, I see 
that name so I know what to select somewhere else. Is there a way to do 
away with the terms Default Character Style or Default Paragraph Style? 
These are very uninformative.

Greg