[x-Height as a first baseline for the text frame options]

AFAICS, we have a brand new feature in 1.9, and it’s called “Initial text baseline advance” (doing exactly what I tried to describe above).

Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

[Reset Bounding Box]

Reset Bounding Box button/command is (was?) a must have.

[Hyphenation dictionaries on Mac OS]

Regarding a kindly reply to a Twitter conversation (please find below) about custom hyphenation dictionaries support on Mac OS:

Is it possible / applicable to have a different folder location for the secondary languages (i.e. Turkish in this case) other than the default one located in Affinity Publisher.app package* itself — in one of the next updates may be?

Otherwise (or without any other reliable — more consistent solution), please be informed that, we lost language specific hyphens on a file and all the text styles drop auto-hyphenation to none in it, after an update. New version overwrites the app, so all the custom additions in package contents, of course.

(*) Affinity Publisher.app⁩ > ⁨Contents⁩ > ⁨Resources⁩ > ⁨Dictionaries⁩ 

Link to above mentioned tweet:

Also please see this topic (says there is a minor discrepancy between Windows and Mac OS versions Preferences, Tools panel, “Additional dictionary folder” line. Mac OS doesn’t have one): 

 

[x-Height as a first baseline for the text frame options]

I couldn’t find any way to set the baseline of a text frame depend upon a typeface’s x-Height i/o it’s Ascenders. IMHO, it’s kinda essential for vertical aligning —sentence case or capitalised case— text blocks properly. Sorry for the screenshot, I’ve just tried to explain myself more clearly.

[[Implemented] Data merge]

+1 (sorry for the noise and thanks everyone)

[Mark Down import]

Yes, please, +1