2006/12/16, clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com <clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com>: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:00:04 -0500, > Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> wrote: > LD> clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com a ?crit : > > [...] > > LD>>>>With Scribus's current behavior of ignoring linespacing at > LD>>>>the top, I have to manually reposition the text box if I > LD>>>>want my columns to finish evenly at the bottom since the > LD>>>>first line will have a linespacing of 14pt rather than > LD>>>>12pt. > LD>>> > LD>>>You could attach your lines to the baseline and forget > LD>>>manual tweaking. > LD>> > LD>> How could I do this? > LD> 1. You have to set the baseline grid in the Preference panel. > LD> 2. Please note that there are 2 Prefs panels. One that is > LD> general for any *new* document and one that is specific to > LD> the current document. > LD> 3. You have to use Paragraph Styles to use the baseline grid, > LD> afaik. (At least it was like that last time I checked.) > LD> 4. You'll find the option in the linespacing pop-up menu > LD> (just keep your mouse down on that icon and you'll see the > LD> options) > > This is a totally non-obvious feature. It should be made more > prominent. I could barely see the little triangle indicating that > the icon is hiding a pop-up menu.
Yes. We all agree with you. This is currently undergoing lots of improvement that will reflect in future versions. In the meantime, the feature is still usable, although "non-obvious". Louis A side note: I still believe the "Fixed" linespacing option (the > default) is misnamed. The default linespacing option is > (apparently) to follow the height of the tallest character > (except when small caps are involved). Which can be problematic > when typesetting a title composed entirely of lowercase letters > (with and without ascenders) or formatted with a font where the > ascenders of some of the lowercase letters (like "l" and "f") > extend beyond the height of the UPPERCASE letters. > > LD> Hope that helps. > > It does. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20061216/74fe90bf/attachment.html
