On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:24:39 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 07:30 AM, ZASKE Martin wrote: > > On 11.06.2018 11:36, Ralf Mattes wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> how can I set a (right-aligned) tab exactly to the right side of a > >> text frame? When I set the tab position to the exact width of the > >> text frame text actually wraps arround to the next line. What am I > >> doing wrong? > > Same here, tried on Scribus 1.5.4 with our normal LTR set-up and our > > "default" font Charis SIL: > > > > All tabs set via Style Manager for "Default Paragraph Style": > > > > text is 180 mm wide, font-size 16 pt, three tabs at 60, 120 and 180 > > mm, all of them right tabs: > > > > > > right tab at 180 mm fail (jumps to next line, unexpected) > > > > right tab at 179.999 mm fail (so not a work-around) > > > > right tab at 179 mm works as expected > > > > No time for more tests today. I will watch this space as the > > solution will be interesting for us too. > > From what I can tell, it seems that, for this to work properly, the > width of the frame needs to be in round numbers in points, i.e., no > decimals. > > So try this as a workaround - make your frame, then switch page units > to points, and adjust the width to a round number in points. You can > either adjust your tab while still in points or switch back to > millimeters and then adjust. This seems to work for me. scribus has the "width" variable which gives you the framewidth... but it seems not to work for tabulators. i've filled a ticket: https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15356 ciao a.l.e
