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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you for the indication!<br>
I could not find this setting, now I see it...<br>
(In my French version : <br>
<i>Réglage du document > Outils > Texte > Largeur de
tabulation</i>)</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I still think a <b>style</b> would be
useful and more flexible (especially to get right align tabs)<br>
If we can create a script to adjust the tabs positions and types
to a regular sequence with a given width<br>
(so that one could change it with one click and one numeric
choice)</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The maths are easy,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">the tricky part is to find out how to
get and set the style properties in the script<br>
(There are some indications <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Using_createParagraphStyle">here</a>,
but this page explains how to <i>create</i> a paragraph style,
and does not mention tabs)...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Silvain<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 07.02.22 à 14:52, Gregory Pittman a
écrit :<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:fbf6c7ca-4df4-8394-5316-ac901f86c3b3@iglou.com">On
2/7/22 04:18, Martin Zaske LINGO wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hello list,
<br>
<br>
last night I was designing a special calendar page for a
friend's
<br>
birthday. Since it was a one-off I quickly did the calendar part
(days
<br>
of the week and dates) with spaces and tab stops.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Then I realized that I could not find where to set the default
width of
<br>
"a tab stop".
<br>
<br>
<br>
I am aware that in Text Properties F3 pop up window I can have
full
<br>
control over each custom tab stop and its position and its
orientation.
<br>
Same again where I define styles.
<br>
<br>
But I had a list of 10 dates and nine tab stops in-between and
did NOT
<br>
know where I needed them, I was experimenting.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I wanted to change the width of the inbuilt default tab-stop (as
I used
<br>
to in Corel Draw many years ago) so that I could test several
layouts.
<br>
If I had to manually place nine customs tab-stops and do the
math and
<br>
then do it several more iterations to find a good and pleasing
layout,
<br>
that would be painful. The custom tab-stops are great for
planned
<br>
layouts but not for "creative messing about". So last night a
used a
<br>
dirty hack with manual tracking feature.
<br>
<br>
<br>
If there is a way in the GUI to find and set the default
tab-stop width,
<br>
please advise. Sorry, still on version 1.5.7 but 1.5.8 already
<br>
downloaded, just not much time due to project surprises.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Greetings,
<br>
<br>
Martin
<br>
<br>
<br>
PS: I made a test document with a row of numbers separated by
simple
<br>
tabs from my keyboard and had a look inside the .sla file and
found
<br>
<DOCUMENT ... TabWidth="36" ... and since I had not set
anything, the
<br>
value of "36" seems to be the default. I changed it to another
value and
<br>
re-opened my document and the results were as expected, i.e.
very good.
<br>
<br>
So I have a clumsy solution for my request, to access the
default, again
<br>
not very suitable for creative experimenting for a new layout,
but still
<br>
much better than calculating and setting many customs-tabs
manually.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Hi Martin,
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
In addition you can create an irregular tab stop setup as part of
a Paragraph Style.
<br>
<br>
Greg
<br>
<br>
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