[Ipe-discuss] Text alignment

[Otfried Cheong]

Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> Is there a way to set alignment of several pieces of text at the same 
> time?  I am working on a figure where I want to have many labels: A, B, 
> C, ..., A_1, B_1, ..., and all of them should be center aligned both 
> vertically and horizontally.  I can right click on each of them and set 
> horizontal alignment, then right click again and set vertical alignment, 
> but that takes very long time and is very cumbersome.  Is there a 
> better, simpler and faster way to do that? 

No, there's no better way (well, there is one: save as XML, open file in 
text editor, do a global search and replace :-)

There are a few other properties where a more convenient way is needed 
to modify them for an entire set of objects.  I still need to figure out 
what the best UI for this is (without cluttering up the properties 
panel).  Text alignment really _should_ be in the properties panel, I 
guess, or at least in the menu.

Otfried