Publisher Version 1 - Tabs with dots?

[Chris26]

Hallo,

I can not find a way to achieve this automatically since I have to do a few hundred of them.  I want to be able to type the word and with an automatic couple of tabs have these dots in between.

Example:
Math.............................23
Pi...................................25
Feynman......................48
 

Thank you

Chris

[firstdefence]

You can create a paragraph style and specify tabs stops and leaders...

 

 

[Chris26]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

You can create a paragraph style and specify tabs stops and leaders...

 

 

 

Hallo firstdefence, thanks for the reply.  I already went here, but as you see in my screenshot there is no option for this.

 

[walt.farrell]

You have to add a tab stop. Look at the + icon at the bottom of the box.

[Chris26]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

You have to add a tab stop. Look at the + icon at the bottom of the box.

Oh, I see, or rather did not see

Thank you Walt

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[firstdefence]

I think the add tab stop icon could be made more obvious, it's not as if they have to squeeze it in, they have plenty of space. So, I think I'm going to feedback with a slight amendment to the interface, wadda ya think, too subtle or have I played it just right? 

[Old Bruce]

7 hours ago, firstdefence said:

wadda ya think, too subtle or have I played it just right?

The only concern I have is that the colours of the Text and the Arrow don't seem to be the same. Other than that I think you have a winner here.

[firstdefence]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

The only concern I have is that the colours of the Text and the Arrow don't seem to be the same. Other than that I think you have a winner here.

yeah I was excited at the innovation of it all and accidentally added a gradient fill to the text.

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, firstdefence said:

I think the add tab stop icon could be made more obvious...

Since they are not going to update V1 with anything like this, as for several other less than obvious icons in both V1 & V2, as a workaround of sorts I suggest setting a very short Tooltip delay so briefly hovering the pointer over the icons with less obvious functions will (for most of them) pop up a brief description. like "Add New Tab Stop" for that one.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Since they are not going to update V1 with anything like this, as for several other less than obvious icons in both V1 & V2, as a workaround of sorts I suggest setting a very short Tooltip delay so briefly hovering the pointer over the icons with less obvious functions will (for most of them) pop up a brief description. like "Add New Tab Stop" for that one.

I think most people probably don't see that icon at all. Probably it should be at the top of the box, not hiding in isolation down at the bottom where there's little reason to look.

[R C-R]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Probably it should be at the top of the box, not hiding in isolation down at the bottom where there's little reason to look.

I am not sure where it should be if it was at the top, but regardless I think users need to learn to look everywhere in the UI to see what is available, not just in this window but in all of them. Otherwise, they are likely to miss lots of features. After all, not everything can have a big bold icon & a descriptive label because if it did there would be little room for the document(s) or very many other studio panels.

[v_kyr]

That icon could (as some others too) be more pronounced, so it's maybe overall better visable and recognizable by people.

On MacOS versions these addtabstop icons (and many more App icons) are part of an App's "Resources/Assets.car" file, which in turn is build for macOS application via Xcode. As in XCode when app's assets are placed in an Assets.xcassets folder, XCode then can compile it to the CAR format, in order to distribute it with the app bundle.

However, even there are third party tools to extract CAR file contents, in order to create such CAR files usually XCode is used and needed. - So if at all, I would best let the Affinity UI team update those icons (...as far as it's really needed).

 

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

That icon could (as some others too) be more pronounced, so it's maybe overall better visable and recognizable by people.

Just curious but how should it (& others) be made more pronounced? Made larger, brightly colored, something else?

Personally, I think the UI still has contrast issues that if anything are worse in V2 than V1.

[v_kyr]

16 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Just curious but how should it (& others) be made more pronounced? Made larger, brightly colored, something else?

Find what makes the most sense to you and other users.

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Find what makes the most sense to you and other users.

Ha! Good luck getting consensus on anything like that!

[firstdefence]

Think a tool tip is a good discreet idea.

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Think a tool tip is a good discreet idea.

Something different from what we have now?

[v_kyr]

10 hours ago, R C-R said:

Ha! Good luck getting consensus on anything like that!

Well then just let it blink blink poison neon green by day or night, so even the blindest will hopefully and with chance recognize it (LOL)!

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Think a tool tip is a good discreet idea.

As @R C-R mentioned, we already have a Tool Tip for it, in both V1 and V2. I remain convinced that users simply don't look down there and miss seeing the icon at all.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I remain convinced that users simply don't look down there and miss seeing the icon at all.

There are several places in the UI where some users overlook icons, a prime example being the 3 line 'burger' icons on most studio panels that when clicked reveal menus of items with various panel-related options. They are at the top right of the panels, yet they still get overlooked, so I don't think it makes that much difference where the icons are.