On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Andrew <akroiter at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > On 20/11/2011, at 16:04 , Murray Strome wrote: > > > > From: "Christen" <christenanderson1994 at gmail.com> > > > > > > > > Not sure if this is at all feasible, but why not get rid > of the forced > > justify icon and instead do something similar to the underline or > shadowed > > text settings in the PP. For instance, when you click on the "underline" > > option, it underlines the text (as expected). But when you click and hold > > down for a moment, a small menu appears with width and displacement > options. > > You could have the normal justify button, that simply justified the text, > > but if you click and hold down on the button, you can have the option for > > forced justification. > > > > (Hope that all made sense. Having a hard time explaining what I mean) :) > > > > Christen > > > > Now that I have found excellent uses for the forced justification and > know where it is located, I strongly recommend leaving it as it is. It > makes much more sense to leave it with the other forms of justification > than to move it somewhere else. > > > > Murray > > > I'd like to agree with Christen's idea. I think it makes perfect sense. > > As an example of what I think he means, if any of you has an iPhone, go to > type some text and go to the screen to type in some punctuation and press > and hold the full stop (.) key. That gives you the option of typing either > . or ? and if that is able to be implemented in Scribus for > justification/forced justification, I think it would work really well. > > Cheers, > Andrew > FWIW, I do not understand what the ending punctuation, whether a period or an elipsis, has to do with justification. Of course, I'm not an Apple user in any form. Android phone and Linux OS at desktop & laptop. John Ghormley KJ4UFG Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal* Walkertown, NC USA editor at sera.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20111123/80743f83/attachment.html>
