> 2. With a special key you could call a small input dialog, just 1 line > or so, for invoking special formatting codes. I think my friend > explained to me that these were the codes for a machine previously used > for layouting in the printing world (Linotype???). Anyway, formatting > was made ridiculously fast by just typing some codes, and the whole > paragraph or text was re-alined. (He admitted that hardly anyone from > the DTP world knew these codes anymore and he considered himself kinda > dinosaur still using them...)
This reminds me of a feature autocad has and which I find very nifty though I am not a CAD user. Anyway, as presumably a lost of Scribus users are bash users as well ;-) I think this would be an excellent feature to have. I personally do most alignments when layouting our magazines by introducing the values instead of dragging objects. I am dreaming of hitting meta-whatever and then typing like "t150l40" to get the selected object to 150 mm from the top of the page an 40 from the left of the page
