On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:03:08 +0100 "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> dijo:
>hi john jason, > >> No, the feature Jonathan is looking for is different. In WordPerfect >> you can type at the left edge of the frame, then enter a "flush >> right" command and the rest of the text on the line will be right >> justified at the right edge of the frame. >> >> In Scribus (and everything else I have ever used) you accomplish this >> by setting a right-aligned tab at the position of the right edge of >> the frame. E.g., if your frame is, say, 400 points wide, then your >> right tab will be at 400 points. When you type text it starts at the >> left edge of the frame, but when you enter a tab the remaining text >> is right aligned at the right edge of the frame (400 points). >the magic feature from wordperfect may be interesting for right >aligning the last line on frames with different width or with frames >which don't have a reectangular form (think: flowing around a picture). > >still, i wonder how much it is relevant for real life tasks: >- if you have to set the width of all the frames, setting a tab is not >really a huge task... >- it will be hard to make people aware of the fact that the feature >exists, so nobody would use it in real life. > >i guess, it would be not very difficult to add a setting in the >paragraph styles to have a the text left aligned / justified but a tab >on the last line flushes to the right instead of going to the next tab >stop. > >but is it worth the hassle? It would be worth the hassle for Jonathan. But I can do without it. I need other features far more than I need the magic WordPerfect feature. The world is not a perfect place and we have to do what we can. Nevertheless, there are times when I wish I had the feature. I wonder if someone could write a script that would automatically make a right-aligned tab at the right edge of the frame. If we could assign the script to a hotkey we would be close to the same functionality. You'd just have to redo the right-aligned tab every time you change the width of the frame, but it wouldn't be bad if it took just a keystroke.
