2011/11/23 ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> > hi david, > > > In the past in have done layouts for cafe menus and been able to align > > prices to menu items by assigning a negative line spacing to the > > price style eg > > paragraph style-item; 14pt left align line spacing 16pt > > paragraph style-price; 10pt right align line space -16pt > > > > I have updated to the scribus version 1.4.0.rc6 and it seems that I > > can no longer set a value for line space less than 1pt, when did this > > change and does anyone have a suggestion to get around this? > > I know I could use a table or put the prices in their own text box > > but I like the elegance of my original method because it makes > > updating items and prices very straight forward. > > cheers for the suggestions > > i don't think that negative line spaces should be supported... > > on the other side, i'm not sure either, if the current limit is > correct. > the current scribus build forbids line spacings which could lead to > overlap glyphs... i'm not sure if in some corner case (mostly for > titles) one may want to allow a potential overlapping (because the > overlapping part does not contain glyphs on one of the lines...). >
This is completely new in fact and it's wrong. This should not be a decision made at the programming level but at the user level. I filed a bug to save you some time ! http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10394 Cheers ! Louis > > > > finally, for your specific case, i would simply use tabulators... in my > experience they work reliable in scribus! > > > ciao > a.l.e > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20111123/951c5b42/attachment.html>
