On 10/03/14 12:49, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 10.03.2014 09:11, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
>> On 03/08/2014 05:04 AM, Hans Breuer wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>>> If you are not building Dia from source, please hesitate to drop in with
>>> your favorite feature request you want someone else to develop for you.
>>
>> It would be great to let objects (or at least texts) have configurable
>> margins around. This will let me attach text objects to other shapes and
>> automatically give them some space. Useful for labeling objects in
>> network diagrams without making them look klunky or having to insert
>> spaces manually. This could even be a general attribute available to any
>> object.
>>
> Having - and handling - an extra attribute for every object just to
> ensure text in some distance does not look like the right approach to me.
> But having a margin property with the Text object could work and even
> address an old request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108770

Interesting suggestion! If the margin value could be specified it would
be better (think: sticking a text to a box with a slim border vs a box
with a thick border).

I'm attaching a sample, just for exemplification.

Best regards, and thanks again for the hard work.

Attachment: text-margin-sample.dia
Description: application/dia-diagram

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