[Ipe-discuss] Text alignment

[Johan Ingvast]

Otfried Cheong wrote:
> 
> 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? 

> 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.

What is the reason for not having the context sensitive menue affect all 
selected objects (of the kind where the change is valid)?

/johan