[scribus] Vertical alignment?

[John Beardmore]

a.l.e wrote:
> hello
>>> 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?
> i'm not one of the devs, either... but the author of the script which 
> vertically centers the text in a frame:
> 
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Adjust_a_text_frame_to_fit_its_content#center_.28vertical.29_align_the_content_of_a_text_frame 
> 
> 
> the script only aligns the text in its current state. so if you add more 
> text, it won't be centered anymore: it's a static alignement.
> 
> the API which is available for scripting doesn't enable a dynamic 
> centering and in the current state of scribus, it wouldn't make much 
> sense either.
> 
> the scripts i wrote, work probably only with 1.3.5 and are still a proof 
> of concept and not (yet) ready for production.
> 
> the implementation is indeed not very complicated, but what is a bit 
> more difficult is to implement the right features in the right way (what 
> happens when the text flows between several chained frames? ...)
> 
> you're welcome to play on them and report (to me? in the wiki) any 
> problem you see.
> 
> depending on the feedback i receive, i may implement the features in 
> scribus' "main code".

Many thanks !  I haven't played with scripts at all yet.  I'll try and 
have a go.


Cheers, J/.
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