On 09/02/2012 14:00, Murray wrote: > OK, now I am a bit confused. In earlier versions, this behaved the way I > would have expected. Now I no longer know how to do what I want! > > Let's say I have a text frame that is about two lines high (in my case, the > height is 10.6 mm and my text is 12 pt Arial). Normally, the top of a single > line of text would be at the top of the frame. With the current stable > version (1.4.0), what do I do to make this single line appear near the centre > (vertically), i.e. about half way down from the top? > > In the older versions (from at least 1.2 to 1.4.0 rc4), I would highlight the > text in its frame, then in the Properties window, under "Text"> "Advanced > Settings", the first control (the one with the red vertical line with a black > horizontal one in the middle followed by an upper case "T" and labled "Offset > to baseline of characters") to -52% which would result in the text being > moved down to the centre of the box. Now, when I adjust this, the grey area > around the highlighted text moves up or down, but the text itself does not > move. > > If it is now behaving "correctly", I don't understand what it is supposed to > do. > > Given that, what should I be doing to achieve my objective? > > I'm using Scribus 1.4.0 on Linux Mint 12 KDE and I have no problem with this.
I adjust the position of my text using Properties>Text>Columns and Distances, and I can adjust it any way I want, up, down, left or right. Ian Whitfield Pretoria
