[Bf-committers] Bf-committers] Naming of settings in editbuttons for text objects.

[Geoffrey Bantle]

>Yes, I agree. I already renamed them in DTPBlender.
Feel free to go
>ahead
>(but be sure to take care of the docs, books etc. to
be updated as
>well ;-)

For something like this I don't think documentation is
such a huge obstacle. First of all the buttons would
be in the same place, secondly their tooltips could be
modified to reflect their old names.


>Both the bf-blender and DTPBlender text object always
supported 
>adjusting
>kerning. Please read the documentation ;-) (hint:
alt-left/right).

Yikes! I have egg on my face with regards to that
one.... Very nice.


>About individual distances between lines: That would
not be hard to >add, no.
>DTPBlender already supports "half-lines", for
example, for seperating
>paragraphs. If you want to code it, you have my full
assistance should
>problems appear :)

Technically you should be able to adjust the leading
between any two specific lines. Something similar to
the 'alt left/right' used for kerning might be good
for this (but instead using 'alt up/down'). I don't
suppose this should be too hard to add in. I will try
to look at that this week.

>Adjusting the tracking for individual parts of text
differently... 
>hrmmm...
>isn't that really overkill? In case of emergency, you
can always just 
>split
>into seperate text objects with seperate settings...

Whether or not adjusting the tracking of individual
parts of the text seperatley is 'overkill' really
depends on what level of typesetting support is
reasonable to expect from Blender. In professional
typesetting it is pretty common to adjust the tracking
of individual parts of your text. I cannot think of
one program that is taken seriously for typesetting
that dosn't support this. On the other hand it may not
be realistic to expect blender to have this level of
support for text editing.

Cheers
Geoff Bantle

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