Display of text decorations is in trunk and it can display things as shown in this example:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/140347078/text_decorations.png
(Note install the last patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1243401 to see these again, as a recent change to trunk broke them.)
Text decoration control requires three GUI fields:
Line: NONE, or any combination of: underline, overline, linethrough, blink Style: solid, double, dashed, wavy Color: From Text or (Color setting widget)
I'm thinking about what the GUI should look like to access these. My first thought was to add them to the "A" (Create and edit text objects) part of the GUI, since text decoration does not make a lot of sense without text to decorate, and this sort of thing would be in a part of the GUI like that in a Word processor. But that part of the GUI is already packed with options, to the extent that on my computer I can only see all the options when Inkscape fills the entire screen. If text decoration was added there, it would never all fit.
So my second thought was to maybe put these in "A (with a wavy line through it)" as (Create and edit text decorations). That would let it fit on screen better, at the cost of making the line of icons down the left side of the screen one longer.
The third option is to add a second line of options to the existing "A". That would use up more vertical screen space, but it would have the advantage that all of the text and text decoration formatting options could be on screen at once. This is more of a departure for the GUI, since it seems not to happen anywhere else.
Thoughts?
(Note: "blink" line type is emulated with a type of double line style. I don't expect true blink display to be found in many SVG viewers, ever, so all Inkscape has to do is indicate that it is set.)
Is there at present anything in the Inkscape GUI where a check box widget is exposed when one of the left side icons is selected? As far as I could tell all of the widgets exposed by selecting one of those icons are of the "select one" type.
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech