On 06/12/2018 10:49 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:24:39 -0400 > Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> On 06/11/2018 07:30 AM, ZASKE Martin wrote: >>> On 11.06.2018 11:36, Ralf Mattes wrote: >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> how can I set a (right-aligned) tab exactly to the right side of a >>>> text frame? When I set the tab position to the exact width of the >>>> text frame text actually wraps arround to the next line. What am I >>>> doing wrong? > >>> Same here, tried on Scribus 1.5.4 with our normal LTR set-up and our >>> "default" font Charis SIL: >>> >>> All tabs set via Style Manager for "Default Paragraph Style": >>> >>> text is 180 mm wide, font-size 16 pt, three tabs at 60, 120 and 180 >>> mm, all of them right tabs: >>> >>> >>> right tab at 180 mm fail (jumps to next line, unexpected) >>> >>> right tab at 179.999 mm fail (so not a work-around) >>> >>> right tab at 179 mm works as expected >>> >>> No time for more tests today. I will watch this space as the >>> solution will be interesting for us too. >> >> From what I can tell, it seems that, for this to work properly, the >> width of the frame needs to be in round numbers in points, i.e., no >> decimals. >> >> So try this as a workaround - make your frame, then switch page units >> to points, and adjust the width to a round number in points. You can >> either adjust your tab while still in points or switch back to >> millimeters and then adjust. This seems to work for me. > > scribus has the "width" variable which gives you the framewidth... but > it seems not to work for tabulators. > > i've filled a ticket: > > https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15356 >
A bigger problem than that is that even when you use the exact width, it doesn't work if the dimension isn't a round number in points. Greg
