Craig Bradney wrote: > On Tuesday 17 January 2006 21:27, Tino Schwarze wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:07:29PM +0100, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: >> >>> Small idea: allow for negative values when defining guidelines. Negative >>> amounts means of course not guidelines outside of page but distance from >>> opposite site (bottom for horizontal and right for vertical). >>> >>> For beginners it is always difficult to know by heart dimensions of >>> current page or format. Negative values should be *immediately* changed >>> to real value to not introduce confusion. >>> >> +1 should be easy to implement and would be very helpful! >> >> Bye, Tino. >> > > Scribus' spinboxes support variables.. I had them in for testing, but stuff > like "pagewidth-10" can work. The remaining enabled one is "old". It works in > the width, height, x,y ones on poperties palette.. eg. old-10 gives the old > value -10.. funnily enough. > Considering all the trouble we hear about people who have lost things off the page and either can't find them or don't even know they're there, I think having just a negative value is a bad idea. Craig's idea makes more sense, but if you know the dimensions of your page, which you can get from right-clicking on the page, then on Manage Page Properties, then just type in the mathematic expression, eg for a width of 612 pts, type '612 - 10.65', Scribus does the math and puts it 10.65 pts from the right edge. I've done this a lot when I want a frame's right edge at a particular location by also subtracting the width of the frame.
Greg
