[scribus] Vertical alignment?

[Gregory Pittman]

John Beardmore wrote:
> Gregory Pittman wrote:
>
>> The good news is that you have not missed anything that is present.
>> The bad news is that there is no vertical centering (or other 
>> vertical alignment). When working with frames, this would be tricky 
>> to implement. 
>
> Out of interest, why is it tricky ?  It sounds easy from my naive 
> perspective.  I'm curious.
Well, not being one of the devs, I'm can't be sure. With horizontal 
centering, you're dealing with one line of text, but with vertical one 
or maybe several lines of text. I try to think of what I might need in 
Scripter for feedback so that I might automate such a process, and it 
isn't easy for me to conceive what that is. In the main GUI, there is an 
ability to set a Top space from the frame border to the beginning of 
text, but the resulting bottom space is a secondary passive amount -- 
does or can Scribus know what this is?

Greg