Louis Desjardins wrote: > Greg, > > I take this opportunity to explain further what I have in mind when I > talk about a button named "Create style". While it is very efficient > to test various type settings from the PP and immediately see the > result in the real text frame of your job (as opposed to the sample > text that is in the Edit > Paragraph Styles dialog) it is clumsy to > have to go to the Edit > Paragraph Styles dialog to enter again those > values when you're satisfied with the result and want that as a Style. > The trip to this dialog is time consuming and not very efficient. What > I suggest is this button that would allow to immediately create a > Style from the settings of the PP (provided as mentionned in an > earlier bug report that we harmonize the PP and the Edit > Par Styles > dialog). Once hit, we would be offered a small dialog asking for a > Style Name and a Keyboard Shortcut (as an option) and voil?! > > I sincerely think this would be a great plus for productivity and > creationness! Not a gadget, a real plus in the PP. Consider the fact > that afaik Scribus is alone in its category to allow such mousewheel > settings combined with ctrl and shift keys to make the finest settings > at your fingertip, including changing fonts, typesize, linespacing, > kerning... etc. Given all those goodies that are really > super-efficient, I am incline to think that a "Create Style" button > would be in fact the cherry on the cake, the final touch to the text > tab in the PP! Am I too enthusiastic? very good, Louis. I don't think this is what Cedric had in mind, but yours is an excellent idea indeed! As I recall there are a few deficits in PP compared to what can be done in Edit Styles, but that shouldn't keep this from being a possibility.
Greg
