[scribus] regular tab stops = update =

[Martin Zaske LINGO]

Thank you Greg,

this is exactly the answer I had hoped for. Your answer is fully
helpful. If this were Stackexchange, you would get my tick; thank you.


As a long-time Scribus user, I can even see the logic: Since I was
asking for the default tab-stop-width, I should not search anywhere in
the text-properties window (F3) for any specific text, but rather in the
settings for an entire document hence Document Setup. I actually had
searched there in "Document Setup", "Guides" and under "Typography" but
had overlooked the fact that "Text" is also considered a "Tool" and has
got its own tab under "Item Tools". So this was a Scribus refresher for me.

As a bonus, I was reminded how I can get rid of Arial as the eternal
annoying default font and get set it to my personal preference of Fira
Go to start with any new text frame.


Like I said, I am well aware of the full-control custom tab-stop
feature. But having access to the default tab-stops is great for
creative messing about.


User is happy, threat could be marked closed, thanks again,

Martin


On 07.02.2022 14:52, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 2/7/22 04:18, Martin Zaske LINGO wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> last night I was designing a special calendar page for a friend's
>> birthday. Since it was a one-off I quickly did the calendar part (days
>> of the week and dates) with spaces and tab stops.
>>
>>
>> Then I realized that I could not find where to set the default width of
>> "a tab stop".
>>
>>
>> I am aware that in Text Properties F3 pop up window I can have full
>> control over each custom tab stop and its position and its orientation.
>> Same again where I define styles.
>>
>> But I had a list of 10 dates and nine tab stops in-between and did NOT
>> know where I needed them, I was experimenting.
>>
>>
>> I wanted to change the width of the inbuilt default tab-stop (as I used
>> to in Corel Draw many years ago) so that I could test several layouts.
>> If I had to manually place nine customs tab-stops and do the math and
>> then do it several more iterations to find a good and pleasing layout,
>> that would be painful. The custom tab-stops are great for planned
>> layouts but not for "creative messing about". So last night a used a
>> dirty hack with manual tracking feature.
>>
>>
>> If there is a way in the GUI to find and set the default tab-stop width,
>> please advise. Sorry, still on version 1.5.7 but 1.5.8 already
>> downloaded, just not much time due to project surprises.
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> PS: I made a test document with a row of numbers separated by simple
>> tabs from my keyboard and had a look inside the .sla file and found
>> <DOCUMENT ... TabWidth="36" ... and since I had not set anything, the
>> value of "36" seems to be the default. I changed it to another value and
>> re-opened my document and the results were as expected, i.e. very good.
>>
>> So I have a clumsy solution for my request, to access the default, again
>> not very suitable for creative experimenting for a new layout, but still
>> much better than calculating and setting many customs-tabs manually.
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Rather than fiddling with the XML of a document, you can go to File >
> Document Setup > Item Tools > Text tab. There you see the default tab
> setting for the document. With no document open, you can change the
> default for future documents at File > Preferences > Item Tools > Text
> tab.
>
> In addition you can create an irregular tab stop setup as part of a
> Paragraph Style.
>
> Greg
>
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