[squeak-dev] Proposal: Morphs in Text

Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel at hpi.de
Mon Jul 1 07:02:23 UTC 2019


Hi Chris,

what does "DTP" stand for? 

Best,
Marcel
Am 01.07.2019 02:19:19 schrieb Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>:
> I'm a little late here.
> TextMorph does not really need TextAnchor I think.
> You can just drop morphs on the text and select avoid occlusions in the menu.
> What are the use of text anchors instead just dropped in morphs ?
> I filed in TextAnchorPlacement change set and it interferes somewhat with the avoid occlusions functions.

I was wondering about the 'avoid occlusions' but spent all my focus on
the alignment testing, thanks for testing that too!

We should not break that. I like this new alignment capability, but
classic DTP text-handling is one of Squeak's most impressive
capabilities. Hopefully an easy fix..?


- Chris

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