Hello list, last night I was designing a special calendar page for a friend's birthday. Since it was a one-off I quickly did the calendar part (days of the week and dates) with spaces and tab stops.
Then I realized that I could not find where to set the default width of "a tab stop". I am aware that in Text Properties F3 pop up window I can have full control over each custom tab stop and its position and its orientation. Same again where I define styles. But I had a list of 10 dates and nine tab stops in-between and did NOT know where I needed them, I was experimenting. I wanted to change the width of the inbuilt default tab-stop (as I used to in Corel Draw many years ago) so that I could test several layouts. If I had to manually place nine customs tab-stops and do the math and then do it several more iterations to find a good and pleasing layout, that would be painful. The custom tab-stops are great for planned layouts but not for "creative messing about". So last night a used a dirty hack with manual tracking feature. If there is a way in the GUI to find and set the default tab-stop width, please advise. Sorry, still on version 1.5.7 but 1.5.8 already downloaded, just not much time due to project surprises. Greetings, Martin PS: I made a test document with a row of numbers separated by simple tabs from my keyboard and had a look inside the .sla file and found <DOCUMENT ... TabWidth="36" ... and since I had not set anything, the value of "36" seems to be the default. I changed it to another value and re-opened my document and the results were as expected, i.e. very good. So I have a clumsy solution for my request, to access the default, again not very suitable for creative experimenting for a new layout, but still much better than calculating and setting many customs-tabs manually. -- courriel par Martin Zaske, membre de : LINGO-Bénin B.P. 48 Bassila Rep. du Bénin Tel. 00229 / 97.44.62.95 Tel. 00229 / 62.58.04.48 Organisation Non Gouvernementale Decret No. 2001-234 du 12 juillet 2001 No. d'enregistrement 6/033/P-SG STCCD-DCDI-ONG du 05 septembre 2012 Numéro IFU: 6201702245702 www.lingo-benin.org ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
