I actually want the functionality of measure text blocks improved, since at the moment there is only very limited use for them. I want to be able to assign a _measure_ attached text block to a position on the _page_.
Pretty much the only thing I use measure attached text blocks for is that I change all my page text blocks to measure attached ones before I extract parts, only to change them back into page text blocks once the parts are extracted.
The other two situations where i use measure attached text blocks are so special I won't even go about explaining them.
So for me there is no overlap of the two tools. And after this whole discussion I have actually decided that I am totally against merging them.
Johannes
shirling & neueweise wrote:
actually they don't, both tools at present control different instances of very similar items: what difference is there between a multi-word text block and a multi-word text expression (in the current state of the tools)? there is no answer to this, each user makes this distinction for themselves, perhaps according to the notational style, but one thing is certain, for me at least, they are not two different tools, although they may be called upon to do different tasks in different situations: one tool allows us to assign to the note or measure, the other to the measure (in a different manner) and the page, this overlapping is redundant. alignment of two expressions assigned with different tools is a problem, as is assuring consistent appearance and behaviour of them following changes to the layout. with the recent improvements to the expression tool, the distinction is even less significant than it was before.
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