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0006436ScribusGeneralpublic2016-05-23 11:07
Reporterlouisdesjardins Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritytweakReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
Summary0006436: Add "Agate Lines" to the vertical units
Descriptionagate line
[United States]
ligne agate n. f.

Definition from http://w3.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index800_1.asp):
A measure of advertising space, 1/14 of an inch deep and one column wide.
A measure of print, about 1/14 inch deep and one column wide, used as a unit of space in advertising.
Additional InformationFor ad layouts
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cbradney

2007-10-30 19:25

administrator   ~0017800

We cannot do vertical only units.. and.. would this be useful, really? IE, whats wrong with using inches here?

louisdesjardins

2007-10-30 19:56

developer   ~0017802

In the ad world, agate lines are still used a lot. Prices are established per agate lines. So ads must fit within this unit. A value of 1/14th of an inch translates in 0.0714285 in decimals... not very user friendly. So agate lines as vertical unit can be of help.

Of course, one could always get away with any other units. I personnaly know nobody who uses cicero for instance. But this doesn't prove cicero to be not useful.

I don't think it would make sense to have a horizontal unit set to agate. AFAIK they are used only to set the height. The other "unit" in that case being the number of columns, a value generally expressed in picas or inches, in North America.

So unless we make separate fields for horizontal and vertical units, my suggestion may well remain a suggestion!

Still, in the professionnal world, it would be a plus. Quark has them for quite a few versions now. But not ID.

Both have separate vertical and horizontal units.

In short: picas, inches, inches decimal, centimeter, millimeter, ciceros are common to both ID and QXP. Agate is a Quark "exclusivity" and "Other" is an ID "exclusivity".

I marked this as a tweak. Having it is a plus. Not having it is not as important in my view as not having picas expressed in base-12 instead of decimals.

cbradney

2007-10-30 20:07

administrator   ~0017805

Picas are already in base 12 in SVN

louisdesjardins

2007-10-30 20:15

developer   ~0017806

Great! :)

Kunda

2016-02-13 01:00

updater   ~0038689

Craig, verdict ?

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2007-10-29 23:48 louisdesjardins New Issue
2007-10-30 19:25 cbradney Note Added: 0017800
2007-10-30 19:56 louisdesjardins Note Added: 0017802
2007-10-30 20:07 cbradney Note Added: 0017805
2007-10-30 20:15 louisdesjardins Note Added: 0017806
2008-02-05 20:49 christoph_s Status new => acknowledged
2016-02-13 01:00 Kunda Note Added: 0038689
2016-05-23 11:07 Kunda Relationship added related to 0010002