Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

I agree with you - I write my documents with LaTeX and there you
really don't have direct formatting tools. The problem is, though,
that tabs are a direct formatting tool by definition - you mark a
passage and set your tab stop, just like the character "a". It's not a
property of your whole document. Indeed, if you want the same tab stop
in several parts of the document, you have to do tedious work:
remember the tab stop position, mark the passages you need it and
manually set it. This is why I don't like tabs.
The suggested improvement would let you place snap points (just like
in Inkscape, yes) on the ruler - for the whole document, or for the
page type you're currently using. Then, when you write text, you can
place tabs by pressing tab and they can be snapped to a ruler by
resizing them with the mouse - like that you can choose to take the
next, the last or whatever snap point you want (note that this would
break compatibility with MS Office since there you can only "tab" to
the next tab stop).
Another advantage would be that if you move such a snap point line,
all tabs all over your document will follow - you don't have to repeat
that for every paragraph.

2010/10/29 Jussi Silvonen <jussi.silvonen@gmail.com>:
> 2010/10/29 RGB ES <rgb.mldc@gmail.com>
>
> > Writer have a good tradition of tools that helps the build of complex
> > documents (styles, styles and more styles!).
> > What I would like to see instead of more direct formatting tools, is a
> > redesign of the way styles are defined to easy the learning curve of
> > new users.

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