As the subject says.
As far as I can tell, flipping a text frame mirrors everything--the direction of text flow and the direction of each glyph, as well as the shape of the frame itself--while clicking the right-to-left text property button simply flips the direction of each glyph relative to the current text flow direction. However, it seems that toggling the right-to-left button also resets the flipped status of the frame if necessary so that text flows in the corresponding direction, though you can change it back by flipping the frame again if you want (and there's a bug that I won't go into here about the flip process if the frame isn't symmetrical). A bit confusing. :) So, A) Am I right, and is this all the intended behavior, and B) Why? Not using any right-to-left scripts, I don't know how their fonts work; is the character-flipping business necessary for them? It seems like direction of text flow would be enough of a thing to specify by itself, and any font-specific stuff could be handled automatcally. At any rate, wouldn't it make more sense to separate these into clearer options, like explicitly "direction of text flow" and "glyph flip", without tying them to a frame flip operation? I might want to use right-to-left writing without flipping the shape of my frame.... Thanks in advance, Michael -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What%27s-the-relationship-between-right-to-left-text-and-flipped-frame--tf2933263.html#a8201020 Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
