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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000498 | Scribus | Styles | public | 2004-04-19 16:50 | 2025-03-13 11:48 | 
| Reporter | louisdesjardins | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always | 
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Linux | OS | Mandrake | OS Version | 10 | 
| Product Version | 1.3 | ||||
| Summary | 0000498: Typography Preference Settings as part of Paragraph Styles | ||||
| Description | Superscripts, subscripts and small caps are ruled by the Edit>Preference>General>Typography menu. These settings apply indistinctively to all fonts in the document. Although it has been years DTP programs have worked this way, I think this approach needs improvement and should be ruled through the Edit>Paragraph Style menu, thus beeing possibly different for each font, because each font is different. | ||||
| Additional Information | What fits for Garamond doesn’t necessarily fit for Helveltica. There are so many differences from one font another that even a settings driven by a percentage doesn’t give good results for both. I agree this is real fine tuning. A check box ”Apply to all fonts” could be a compromise if you don’t want to use the feature to its full extent. Otherwise, the settings would be user definable in the Paragraph Style menu. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Patch | |||||
|  | I'd like to have all this metrics related stuff in a per-font customization tab. It would include: * sub/superscript pos * smallcaps ratio * underline and strikethru pos * strokewidth * manual kerning pairs * hor. and vert. scale * extra leading * extra tracking A customized font would be a new font, different from the original one. | 
|  | This sounds good, but I think further changes should still be possible in each style and/or at least manually on a case-by-case basis, especially for sub/superscripts. | 
|  | @nitramr what do you think of this? | 
|  | For me, it makes perfect sense to use superscript, subscript, and small caps values as part of the character style. I don't think these values need to be particularly prominent, so I suggest implementing the input fields similarly to character borders and character drop shadows. You simply click and hold the button until the input value menu appears. (By the way, I could also imagine using a right-click instead of a "long click.") In that way, we don't need more space in the UI (style manager + text properties). | 
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-19 16:50 | louisdesjardins | New Issue | |
| 2006-02-06 17:34 | jo-hannes | Status | new => acknowledged | 
| 2006-02-06 17:34 | jo-hannes | Product Version | 1.1.6 => 1.3 | 
| 2006-05-02 09:12 | mhanski | Relationship added | related to 0002995 | 
| 2006-05-02 20:05 | mhanski | Relationship added | has duplicate 0002955 | 
| 2006-05-02 22:18 | avox | Note Added: 0010817 | |
| 2006-05-03 01:51 | mkoren | Note Added: 0010822 | |
| 2025-03-13 10:08 | ale | Note Added: 0052210 | |
| 2025-03-13 11:48 | nitramr | Note Added: 0052214 | 
