On 11-Apr-2014 18:17, Martin Owens wrote:
Create a text box by dragging a square with the text tool. Add ten spaces to the top line, nine to the next and so on until the last line with one space.
This object now has two non-visible areas. One is the transparent non-text area where no characters exist; and the rest is an non-apparent triangle of spaces. Thus one can demonstrate there is really two realms of "non-visible" areas and these result from their two originating contexts.
I conclude that the rules for these two should not be the same.
Excellent example. With the latest patches here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1243401
all of the text area within the box (including all spaces) is selectable and all of the non-text area is ignored. The space between text lines is also not selectable.
So are we all OK now on having selectable leading and trailing spaces?
Thanks,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech