> 2008/2/14, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>: >> >> Cedric Sagne wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I was reading about hanging punctuation (see the link), which is just >> > one refinement similar to capital caps. >> > A workaround is available by defining a paragraph style with an >> > indentation for the main text but not for the first line. >> > Is there a wider voice for something more automated? >> > >> > >> >> Not sure I would consider this a "workaround" -- it's how you do this. >> As your example shows, this is not likely to be something that can be >> simply automated -- the left double quotes are larger than they should >> be for the text size (see the right double quotes at the end). >> I didn't find that making a hanging indent of a few points was so >> difficult, and it would need to be customized for various fonts and font >> sizes anyway. >> >> > http://desktoppub.about.com/od/typelayout/ss/hangingquotes.htm >> > >> > Also, on the GUI side, I would really save time with a shortcut from >> the >> > properties palette to edit colours and text styles. Are there more >> > people around who agree with me? >> > >> >> A bit more explanation of what you want here would help. Edit > >> Paragraph Styles doesn't work? You can set a keyboard shortcut if you >> wish... > > > Greg, > > I take this opportunity to explain further what I have in mind when I talk > about a button named "Create style". While it is very efficient to test > various type settings from the PP and immediately see the result in the > real > text frame of your job (as opposed to the sample text that is in the Edit > > > Paragraph Styles dialog) it is clumsy to have to go to the Edit > > Paragraph > Styles dialog to enter again those values when you're satisfied with the > result and want that as a Style. The trip to this dialog is time consuming > and not very efficient. What I suggest is this button that would allow to > immediately create a Style from the settings of the PP (provided as > mentionned in an earlier bug report that we harmonize the PP and the Edit > > > Par Styles dialog). Once hit, we would be offered a small dialog asking > for > a Style Name and a Keyboard Shortcut (as an option) and voil?! > > I sincerely think this would be a great plus for productivity and > creationness! Not a gadget, a real plus in the PP. Consider the fact that > afaik Scribus is alone in its category to allow such mousewheel settings > combined with ctrl and shift keys to make the finest settings at your > fingertip, including changing fonts, typesize, linespacing, kerning... > etc. > Given all those goodies that are really super-efficient, I am incline to > think that a "Create Style" button would be in fact the cherry on the > cake, > the final touch to the text tab in the PP! Am I too enthusiastic?
In 1.3.5, there is a keyboard shortcut for at least the character styling, early days but it worked, and yes, a style button is a brilliant idea Owen
