Thank you Greg, this is exactly the answer I had hoped for. Your answer is fully helpful. If this were Stackexchange, you would get my tick; thank you.
As a long-time Scribus user, I can even see the logic: Since I was asking for the default tab-stop-width, I should not search anywhere in the text-properties window (F3) for any specific text, but rather in the settings for an entire document hence Document Setup. I actually had searched there in "Document Setup", "Guides" and under "Typography" but had overlooked the fact that "Text" is also considered a "Tool" and has got its own tab under "Item Tools". So this was a Scribus refresher for me. As a bonus, I was reminded how I can get rid of Arial as the eternal annoying default font and get set it to my personal preference of Fira Go to start with any new text frame. Like I said, I am well aware of the full-control custom tab-stop feature. But having access to the default tab-stops is great for creative messing about. User is happy, threat could be marked closed, thanks again, Martin On 07.02.2022 14:52, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 2/7/22 04:18, Martin Zaske LINGO wrote: >> 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. > > Hi Martin, > > Rather than fiddling with the XML of a document, you can go to File > > Document Setup > Item Tools > Text tab. There you see the default tab > setting for the document. With no document open, you can change the > default for future documents at File > Preferences > Item Tools > Text > tab. > > In addition you can create an irregular tab stop setup as part of a > Paragraph Style. > > Greg > > > ___ > 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 -- 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
