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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0017243 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2024-07-01 13:00 | 2024-07-01 13:02 |
| Reporter | ale | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.6.3.svn | ||||
| Summary | 0017243: Left indent for numbered lists | ||||
| Description | The Scribus Paragraph Effects now have a list. Sadly, it's not possible to create a correct hanging indent, because the existing field "offset" does not start from the left (or right for RTL) margin but from the suffix. This is a bigger issue at least for numbered lists with more than 9 elements (and for shorter lists that are not in arab numbers). See this forum thread for a complaint about this: Aligning Numbered Lists Vertically https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,5213.msg23805.html#msg23805 I've checked how Libreoffice does it: From what I can tell, it simply adds a tab character after the suffix. Automatically. Always. If no tab is defined, the cursor will jump to the first default tab. This having been said that, I wonder what's the use case for the offset that starts from the number / suffix. Is there any? If there is no known usage for it, I guess that the simplest solution is to repurpose this offset to start from the left margin. The feature is pretty new in the stable version and -- if nobody if it is has no real purpose in its current implementation, i don't see why somebody would have used it... The better solution is probably: - The "offset" field is deprecated (and in the long term completely removed from Scribus; except if somebody comes up with a use case for the current implementation...). - By default the list paragraph effects jump to the first existing tab (the default one if there is none) by inserting an automatic tab character after the suffix - It might be possible to disable the automatic tab (if somebody comes up with a use case where this is useful) - If there is a way to disable the automatic tab and the offset gets deprecated, allow multiple chars in the suffix (in order to allow a space after the dot) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | No | ||||
