Hello
I read in the docs that flowtext boxes can be linked so that text flows from one box into another. However, the docs do not show how that works and I couldn't find out. Could please somebody tell me how to do that?
If I create an empty second text box for the text to be flowed in from the first text box, after clicking into the first text box, the second text box is gone. How can I create text boxes that stay even if the are empty. This is also important for creating templates.
There seems to be no option for defining pages. A page could be just a layer that blends out all layers below it and all layers above the next page (including it). This would be a nice feature because switching from page to page wouldn't mean turning off visibility for one text layer and turning on visibility for the next layer to work with.
Fiddling with the text boxes is quite annoying. One has to click exactly on the letters to get the box. Also, if there are empty lines below the text--possibly to copy in some part from somewhere else-- there is no way to directly get back to there after having clicked into another text box.
Selecting some text is annoying too. The tool doesn't behave well --especially when selecting from the end upwards. However, the last line seems to be hardly recognized when selecting text.
A select tool only for text (an arrow with an A at the right) would be nice to help using inkscape like a text layout tool or a word processor. This tool should always highlight all textboxes for the quick overview of the page layout and allow the user to click into a text box anywhere where text or free spaces are given. If one clicks outside the given text in the box, the cursor should find the nearest position at the text automatically. When two boxes overlap, the highest is chosen. When the text selection tool is used, inkscape interprets a text box as opaque because overlayed text boxes are of no use in text layout mode and transparent boxes would have to pass clicks through instead of the behaviour written above.
Hope you can make use of this
Dennis Heuer