Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

Well, that's not the way I use tab stops on Writer ;)
Suppose you want to have a "description"(1): a lone word to the left
followed by a paragraph aligned as a "block":
Word:     Definition
.............More definition
.............More definition
Another: Definition
.............More definition
.............More definition
Then you set your paragraph style with "space before text" and a
negative indent for the first line (on Space and Indent tab) plus a
tab stop at a distance from margin equal to the "space before text"
you set before (on Tabs tab): bingo! Type the word to be defined,
press tab and start to type your definition. In this case (the only I
use) tab stops are part of the paragraph design, not direct
formatting.

(1) on LaTeX this is something like
\begin{description}
\item [{Word}] Definition and More definition
\item [{Another}] Definition and More definition
\end{description}

2010/10/29 Johannes Bausch <johannes.bausch@gmail.com>:
> 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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