<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/10/30 Jean Ghali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jghali@libertysurf.fr">jghali@libertysurf.fr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Louis Desjardins a écrit :<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi guys,<br>
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> Currently trying to get something out of 1.3.8 on a Mac.<br>
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> Are we really going to get out of the mud of this text engine ? out of<br>
> the mud of this style dialog ?<br>
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> Hey ?!?!<br>
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> Set type.<br>
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> Three basic settings...<br>
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> 1. Type.<br>
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> 2. Typsesize.<br>
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> 3. Leading.<br>
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> Now, where are they ?<br>
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> Type and typesize on the next tab...<br>
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> Leading on the first tab...<br>
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> No compliments. It does not work. It does not make any sense.<br>
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> Yes, I know. I should know how to code.<br>
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> Louis, get out of your comfort zone and start coding.<br>
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> Can we simply get rid of this dialog and have the style created at right<br>
> hand click ? Bug 300 or so by Lyam, back in 2004 or something.<br>
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> Please do us a favor and kill this dialog.<br>
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</div></div>I think everyone agrees there is much to say about current style dialog. Unfortunately the<br>
complaint cited here shows a lack of functionnality analysis. Why leading is a character<br>
property in Indesign/QuarkXPress? Because they have the capability to control that setting<br>
at line level. Scribus has currently no such capability. Consequently placing leading<br>
control in character style dialog would misrepresent Scribus functionnalities and makes<br>
currently no sense.<br></blockquote><div><br>Does that explain why there is currently a tab split in the paragraph style to put in different tabs the typesize and the linespacing? I don’t think that they should be splitted, first. There are characters attributes to a paragraph style. But maybe this is not how it’s programmed. But from the user’s perspective, there is a need not to have to run in circles into a dialog to set something, look elsewhere, try to find settings that work together and that are related. It makes no real sense to set type and typesize without a linespacing value. So why put those on separate tabs?<br>
<br>Louis<br><br><br><br><br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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